SERENA Software Announces Support for S/390 Unix System Services

Business Wire, March 20, 2000

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

BURLINGAME, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 20, 2000

Leading Software Change Management Solution

Facilitates eBusiness Requirements

in Popular Enterprise Environment

SERENA Software, Inc. (Nasdaq:SRNA), an industry-leading supplier of eBusiness infrastructure Software Change Management solutions, today announced that its eChange Man(tm) solution will support S/390(R) Unix System Services. This extension of eChange Man's capabilities enables enterprises to employ IBM(R)'s Unix operating system in their S/390 Enterprise Server environments, to drive eBusiness capabilities with a consistent Software Change Management (SCM) approach supported by a single vendor. SERENA's solution offers a single point of control for managing software changes to mission critical eBusiness applications running across all major platforms from mainframe to the Web to improve reliability, quality and time to market while reducing hard costs.

SERENA's Change Man(R) provides the automated software change management infrastructure for S/390 MVS applications, with eChange Man for Windows, NT, Web, UNIX, and MPE/ix environments. Large enterprises with significant investments in legacy applications can now realize increased time-to-market and software reliability running Unix on the S/390 platform.

"With solutions like SERENA's eChange Man, our customers can leverage consistent change-management procedures to speed application development and increase availability across the diverse set of applications running on S/390," said Doug Balog, IBM's Director of S/390 Software. "SERENA shares our commitment to have S/390 provide industry-leading capabilities required to meet the demands of a rapidly expanding e-business world. S/390's platform leadership in application scalability, security, availability and manageability is further enhanced with SERENA's eChange Man."

"Our larger clients, in particular, have expressed an interest in utilizing IBM's S/390 Unix System Services as they move toward eBusiness, yet also require the ability to leverage existing investments in information assets," said Tony Stayner, SERENA's Vice President of Marketing. "SERENA is in the unique position of delivering a seamless eBusiness infrastructure management solution, regardless of computing platforms."

Availability

S/390 Unix System Services support is scheduled for availability with the next release of eChange Man in Q2 2000. With that release, eChange Man will provide a single point of control to manage software change across the following platforms: Web, Windows, Windows NT, Unix (HP-UX, IBM AIX, Sun Solaris OS, S/390 USS; and Linux), and MPE/ix.

About SERENA Software

SERENA Software is a global company providing software infrastructure products and consulting best practices that automate the management of enterprise software changes. SERENA is headquartered in Burlingame and maintains international offices in Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom. SERENA products are used at over 2,000 customer sites, including 80% of the Fortune 50. SERENA can be reached through the World Wide Web at www.serena.com

Note to Editors: Change Man is a registered trademark of SERENA Software. eChange Man is a trademark of SERENA Software, Inc. All other products or company names are used for identification purposes only, and may be trademarks of their respective owners.