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                                                        The Florida SunFlash

            CA Announces Strategic Alliance With Sun

SunFLASH Vol 45 #23					      September 1992 
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		CA ANNOUNCES STRATEGIC ALLIANCE WITH SUN
		  TO PROVIDE CA-UNICENTER FOR SOLARIS

		CA's Adoption of OPEN LOOK Helps Clients
		Rightsize to UNIX Client-Server Environments

ISLANDIA, N.Y. -- September 21, 1992 -- Computer Associates
International, Inc., and Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC)
today announced a strategic alliance to provide CA's industry-leading
CA-UNICENTER(R) systems management solution for Sun(TM) SPARCserver(TM)
and SPARCstation(TM) families, based on the Solaris(R) 2.0 system
software environment.

The alliance between the two industry leaders furthers Sun's presence
in commercial markets and gives CA greater access to the rapidly
growing SPARC(R)/Solaris market. SMCC is the volume market leader in
UNIX(R) multiprocessing servers with its SPARCserver 600MP Series. CA
is the leading independent provider of distributed systems management
solutions for multiple operating systems and hardware platforms.

Consistent with the guiding principles of CA90s(TM), a layered
architecture promoting the sharing of common services among software
applications, CA-UNICENTER for the Sun platform will provide
interoperability with platforms and solutions from other vendors.
Together, the two companies will conduct joint marketing and sales
activities to provide a comprehensive systems management capability to
customers seeking an open systems solution for their commercial data
processing requirements.  The two companies will market CA-UNICENTER
jointly. The agreement also provides for porting additional CA software
solutions to Sun systems.

"CA-UNICENTER is critical to helping Sun clients rightsize their
applications from mainframes to UNIX client-server," said Charles B.
Wang, chairman of Computer Associates. "Our mutual clients can use
CA-UNICENTER for systems management the same way they have for
mainframe environments.  They won't need to change the way they manage
their business."

"Rightsizing is a major requirement for our customers today," said
Scott McNealy, president and CEO of Sun Microsystems, Inc.
"CA-UNICENTER is a key component of rightsizing. It will let our
customers manage their systems resources in today's commercial
computing environment, with OPEN LOOK(R) making UNIX system management
even easier."

CA-UNICENTER technology will enable Sun system managers to administer
multivendor networks using commercial-strength systems management
tools. Built using CA90s technology, CA-UNICENTER addresses the
fundamental requirements of systems management in:


		* console management

		* workload management

		* report distribution

		* automated storage management

		* spooled print control

		* problem tracking

		* security control

		* performance monitoring

		* performance management

		* systems administration

CA-UNICENTER will be engineered to exploit the high performance SPARC
architecture and the OPEN LOOK user interface. CA will port CA-DB(TM)
-- the underlying database for the UNICENTER product -- onto the
SPARC/Solaris platform.

Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE: CA) with 7,500 employees
around the globe, is the world's leading software company for
integrated systems, database management, business applications and
application development solutions. These programs operate across a full
spectrum of mainframe, midrange and desktop computers. Founded in 1976,
CA became a public company in 1981, and now serves most of the world's
major business, government, research and educational organizations.
Fiscal 1992 revenues exceeded $1.5 billion.

Computer Associates, CA-UNICENTER, CA90s and CA-DB are trademarks of
Computer Associates International, Inc.

For more information please contact Marty Robins, Commercial Market
Development (214) 788-3145 or Leiann Lee, SMCC Public Relations,
Commercial Market Development (415) 336-0597.

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