BMC Software Solidifies DB2 Leadership with Unified Solutions Offerings; Unified Solutions Readily Available to Support IBM's DB2 V.7

Business Wire, May 15, 2001

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HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 15, 2001

BMC Software Inc. (NYSE:BMC), the leading provider of enterprise management, today solidified its DB2(R) leadership position by delivering a new solutions model that addresses customers' DB2 management requirements. The solutions are designed with built-in intelligence to automate management actions based on the status of DB2 databases and applications. This new solution model further rounds out BMC Software's database management offerings and supports BMC Software's infrastructure management initiatives to assure business availability.

With BMC Software's unified solutions offerings, the company combines complementary product components to create single solutions that address specific DB2 management issues. This new model is focused on solving customers' most difficult DB2 management problems as opposed to point products or arbitrary bundles that require significant effort and expertise to address customer needs. By offering comprehensive solutions, BMC Software lowers the customer's total cost of ownership for managing DB2 and differentiates BMC Software's approach from that of competing vendors.

These DB2 solutions deliver unparalleled availability by addressing the performance, recoverability and database administration issues of customers' DB2 implementations. Today's announcement of unified solutions readily available to support DB2 V.7 provides:

Performance Management:

-- System Performance for DB2 -- Ensures that customers meet their DB2 service
levels by automating the tuning of DB2 subsystems in response to dynamically
changing workloads.

-- Database Performance for DB2 -- Optimizes database objects to deliver high
performance while assuring continuous availability.

-- Application Performance for DB2 -- Optimizes application performance by
proactively analyzing and tuning application and SQL code with minimal
overhead.

Recovery Management:

-- Application Recovery for DB2 -- Provides built-in intelligence

to perform rapid recovery from application or user errors

without an outage.

-- Disaster Recovery for DB2 -- Automates and streamlines the DB2

disaster recovery process to ensure successful recovery from a

disaster with minimal disruption to business.

Database Administration:

-- Database Administration for DB2 -- Automates database change

management for complex development environments ensuring that

database schema changes are always made not just quickly, but

100 percent accurately.

-- Administrative Assistant for DB2 -- Increases application

availability and DBA productivity by reducing the time it

takes to define, review, and manage database operations.

Florida Hospital, the largest non-profit hospital in Florida, uses BMC Software's solutions to back up all of its DB2 objects and production.

"We are going to look to BMC Software to see what kind of tools that they have to help us manage that availability and performance," said Robert Goodman, database administrator at Florida Hospital. "BMC Software has a tradition in those areas and has shown strength in the past. I'm sure their products will be the same in the future."

Goodman is confident that BMC Software can continue to provide Florida Hospital with the future solutions it needs in an ever-changing marketplace, just as it has for more than 10 years. "The tools are there, they're dependable and we see them as a strategic business partner that helps us do our business better."

All of BMC Software's current portfolio of market-leading offerings remain on the market and can be purchased by customers individually. BMC Software continues to invest heavily in R&D resulting in innovative and advanced capabilities such as intelligent automation with action and instant snapshot technologies, both of which deliver continuous availability and optimized performance to BMC Software's solutions for DB2.

"BMC Software's mission has always been to automate and simplify DB2 management for our customers," said Craig Mullins, director, DB2 Technology Planning for BMC Software. "You can't lower your total cost of ownership by buying a few low-cost utilities. To lower the total cost of ownership, you have to have superior technology that can support greater system availability. BMC Software has been delivering intelligent, technically innovative solutions for more than 15 years, and we have been way ahead of the pack when it comes to our customers reaping a return on their investment."

Learning Universe

Join BMC Software for a global gathering of information technology managers and technical staff from around the world at its annual global user conference, Learning Universe, June 3 - 7, 2001 at the Orlando World Center Marriott Resort and Convention Center in Florida. Show attendees will gain valuable insight on attaining end-to-end service level management. Additionally, members of the media will have the opportunity to meet one-on-one with BMC Software's senior executives. To register today, see updates and get a full description of the sessions and curriculum for Learning Universe 2001, visit www.bmc.com/learninguniverse/ or call 800/254-1420.