Computer Associates and Mosaix announce global agreement; provides open solutions to the world's major enterprises.

SYDNEY, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 15, 1995--Computer Associates International, Inc. today announced a global development and marketing agreement with Mosaix Technologies Limited (MXL) to deliver a complete spatial development environment by enabling MXL's spatial client application development tool, Mosaix, to work seamlessly with CA-OpenIngres, the leading client/server RDBMS. The two companies will work with key clients representing diverse industry sectors, including defense, telecommunications, transport, utilities and mining. Clients and analysts welcomed the announcement.

Colonel Ian Ahern, director of corporate information plans for the Australian Army, stated: "What the Army needs today is a rapid development environment in which to build and deploy tailored defense applications. Everything we do in the Army is spatially related. The ability to cost-effectively manage and distribute spatial data to all our operatives is paramount. The CA-MXL initiative will clearly address this position."

Tim Rankine, MXL CEO, stated that the agreement greatly expands the opportunities for Mosaix in international markets: "The agreement with Computer Associates combines our expertise in providing spatial client/server application development tools with CA's leadership in supplying open solutions to the world's major enterprises."

Yogesh Gupta, CA senior vice president of product strategy, said, "Mosaix leads the world in application development tools for this environment. When combined with CA-OpenIngres, it is truly an exceptional solution for enterprise spatial computing."

David Sonnen, Integrated Spatial Solutions president and recognized Spatial Data Management expert, said: "The Mosaix Spatial Application Development Environment represents a breakthrough in client development tools for mission-critical applications that use spatial data. Mosaix clearly stands head-and-shoulders above any rapid application development tool in the industry. "When combined with CA-OpenIngres, it provides a very powerful, complete environment to build applications that process both traditional and complex data efficiently," added Sonnen.

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 systems and database management, application development, manufacturing and financial applications. CA has 9,000 people in 130 offices in 36 countries and had revenue of $2.6 billion in its 1995 fiscal year. CA can be reached by visiting its homepage on the worldwide web (http://www.cai.com).

Mosaix Technologies Limited (ASX:MXL) is an Australian-based developer of software development tools that combines all available forms of corporate data --textual, graphic, numerical and visual-- and presents it within a single integrated environment. -0- All referenced product names are trademarks of their respective companies.

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