Computer Associates and Intesa Sign Contract to Provide Year 2000 Solutions to Petroleos de Venezuela.

CARACAS, Venezuela--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 8, 1998--

Largest Year 2000 Deal For CA In Latin America

Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA), the world leader in mission-critical business software, and Intesa, an integrated technological service provider to Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) and other customers, announced an agreement to deliver advanced Year 2000 solutions to PDVSA. This represents the largest Year 2000 agreement for CA in Latin America.

Intesa is helping PDVSA control and manage its Information Systems Year 2000 project portfolio, from initial impact analysis and code remediation to application life cycle management and testing. Under the CA/Intesa agreement and through the use of CA Discovery 2000, a high proportion of PDVSA's mission-critical business software will be remediated in a fast track approach to allow the corporation to be ready on time. As has been widely recognized, many applications and systems that use two-digit years may not handle the upcoming century change and therefore need to be fixed to avoid business interruption.

CA Discovery 2000 is a suite of tools and services that help reduce the costs and increase the success of Year 2000 initiatives. It incorporates automated solutions for many phases of a Year 2000 effort -- from initial portfolio assessment through code conversion and testing to final production turnover. CA Discovery 2000 consists of automated remediation and independent verification and validation tools such as CA-Fix/2000 and UNICAST/2000, along with specialized testing tools.

CA products licensed by Intesa include:

-- CA-Fix/2000 for automated COBOL remediation; -- UNICAST/2000 for CA-ADS and UNICAST/2000 PC for CA-IDMS COBOL, for

making automatic code adjustments in the CA-IDMS environment, the data base management system used by PDVSA; -- CA-Impact/2000 for impact analysis; -- Endevor MVS, UNIX and Workstation for change and configuration

management; -- CA-Accuchek, CA-Datamacs/II, CA-InterTest, CA-Verify and

CA-TestCoverage/2000 for Year 2000 testing.

"CA Discovery 2000 products will help reduce conversion costs and maximize the success of Year 2000 initiatives carried out by Intesa and PDVSA," said Paul Sager, Intesa's Vice President of Operations.

"Year 2000 compliance is a key concern for clients in Latin America, and we are delighted to be working with Intesa to deliver an extremely practical and cost-efficient solution," said Wilson Grava, general manager of Computer Associates Venezuela.

Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE: CA), with headquarters in Islandia, N.Y., is the world leader in mission-critical business software. The company develops, licenses and supports more than 500 integrated products that include enterprise computing and information management, application development, manufacturing and financial applications. CA has over 11,000 people in 160 offices in 43 countries and had revenue of $4.7 billion in fiscal year 1998. CA can be reached by visiting http://www.cai.com, emailing [e-mail], or calling 1-516-342-5224.

Intesa (Informatica, Negocios y Tecnologia, S.A.) was formed as a result of a strategic alliance between Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA) and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), to provide integrated information technology services in the Latin American market. Intesa, with a staff of over 1,600 professionals in Venezuela and the SAIC offices for Latin America, is working to facilitate enterprise change in knowledge-based intelligent organizations, by deploying technological applications in its customers' business processes.

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   CONTACT: CA Venezuela
             Marma Ines Cardozo, [phone], [e-mail]
                  or
             CA Latin America,
             Tatiana Fonseca, [phone], [e-mail]
                  or
             IMS Miami
             Patricia Acosta, 305/662-3868, [e-mail]