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Boole & Babbage MainView Products Offer Same-day Support for IBM OS/390 V1.3; Only Solutions Available to Concurrently Support Both Parallel Sysplex and Traditional Mainframes

Business Wire, April 1, 1997

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 1, 1997--Boole & Babbage, Inc. (NASDAQ:BOOL), the leader in end-to-end availability management for the enterprise, today announced that its MainView performance management and automation solution provides Day One Support for IBM(a) OS/390 Version 1.3, made available recently by IBM.

MainView products supporting OS/390 releases 1, 2 and 3 include CMF MONITOR 5.2.2, MainView for MVS 2.4, AutoOPERATOR 4.1 and MainView Desktop 1.3.2.

MainView products are the only fully integrated systems management tools available today that offer concurrent support for Parallel Sysplex and traditional mainframe environments, as well as multiple subsystem releases.

"Support for a major operating system like OS/390, which is strategic to so many of our customers, remains a top priority for Boole & Babbage," said Mike Bunyard, Boole & Babbage senior director, large systems marketing. "Our same day support allows our customers to know that as always, our products will be ready when they want to exploit IBM's latest advancements."

MainView provides application- and workload-focused performance monitoring, helping system programmers to control service levels. MainView's online monitoring provides point-and-shoot navigation, concurrent multi-system access, and Single System Image for viewing data from multiple processing regions or a Parallel Sysplex as a single entity.

MainView has embedded capabilities that allow it to support and exploit parallel processing environments without modification. MainView products for MVS, MQSeries, CICS, IMS, DBCTL and DB2 are the only fully integrated systems management tools available that can concurrently support Parallel Sysplex and traditional mainframe environments.

Boole & Babbage is the worldwide leader in availability, performance and storage management solutions for distributed systems. Its Enterprise Automation solution set manages application availability from end-to-end, maximizing uptime and reducing operational costs for even the most complex IT enterprises.

Through advanced interoperability with leading frameworks and a flexible architecture easily scaled to customer requirements, Boole & Babbage products provide a comprehensive systems management and automation solution for all applications, systems and networks -- from the mainframe to the desktop.

For more information see www.boole.com or call 800/544-2152. -0-

Note to Editors: Boole & Babbage and MainView are registered trademarks of Boole & Babbage, Inc.

AutoOPERATOR and CMF are trademarks of Boole & Babbage, Inc.

(a) Indicates a trademark or registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation.

CONTACT: Boole & Babbage, Inc.

Shelly Gordon, 408/526-3430

sgordon@boole.com

http://www.boole.com

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