CA OUTLINES STRATEGY TO HELP CUSTOMERS FULLY LEVERAGE OPEN SOURCE TECHNOLOGIES

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CA OUTLINES STRATEGY TO HELP CUSTOMERS FULLY LEVERAGE
OPEN SOURCE TECHNOLOGIES  
· Announces Open Sourcing of Ingres and KGEM
· Introduces Document Management Solution that
Incorporates Plone Engine
· Unveils Collaborations with JBoss and Zope
· Announces First Open Source Management
Technology Stack

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CA's Ingres Database To Be Released Into Open Source 
CA and Zope To Bring Open Source Content Management To
Mainstream Enterprise Market 
CA and JBoss To Create Advanced Open Source Solution
For Java 
Plone Foundation Created to Strengthen Open Source
Plone for Community and Business 

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CAWORLD, LAS VEGAS, May 24, 2004 – Re-asserting
its commitment to open source, Computer Associates
International, Inc. (NYSE: CA) today outlined its
strategy to deliver high-value solutions to corporate
customers seeking to take full advantage of open
source technologies. CA unveiled the open sourcing of
CA’s Ingres Enterprise Relational Database and
Kernel Generalized Event Management (KGEM), introduced
BrightStor Document Manager that incorporates the open
source Plone document management engine, and announced
collaborations with JBoss, Inc. and Zope Corporation.
As a growing number of new technologies are getting
their start as open source software, CA has adopted an
Open Innovation Model (as outlined in “The Era
of Open Innovation” by Henry W. Chesbrough of
Harvard Business School). This model promotes the
active sharing, use and support for all available
internal and external innovations to create the best
possible solutions for customers. Under this model, CA
will co-develop, promote and support existing and new
open source projects and serve as a trusted
contributor and powerful advocate for the open source
community.

“CA has always taken a collaborative approach to
software development, welcoming feedback from our
customers, partners and other industry leaders,”
said Mark Barrenechea, senior vice president of
product development at CA. “By extending this
approach to the open source community, we are
fostering open innovation and accelerating the
delivery of management software solutions to meet the
needs of our customers.”

Major Initiatives 

Corporate IT organizations have embraced open source
software and are demanding enterprise-class quality,
scalability, functionality and support for these
solutions. By leveraging the power of the open source
community, CA is extending its development efforts to
meet these customer demands.

Ingres Enterprise Relational Database (Ingres) for
Linux will be open sourced in 90 days under a CA
Trusted Open Source License. Ingres supports the
Oracle Cluster File System (OCFS) for Linux Cluster
Support and IBM's Distributed Lock Manager (OpenDLM)
to deliver new clustering functionality — giving
customers the ability to achieve scalability and
reliability on a low-cost clustering platform.

BrightStor Document Manager, a new addition to the
BrightStor family of storage management solutions,
combines open source technology from Plone with CA's
BrightStor Portal to provide customers with an
easy-to-use, cost effective document management
solution.

Ingres will also be the initial database underlying
Zope RDBMS Persistence Engine.

“As storage and information requirements
continue to increase, Ingres and Plone will set the
open source standard for structured and unstructured
data management,” said Barrenechea. “With
these initiatives, CIOs will be able to leverage
trusted open source and ensure enterprise-class
support for their information management needs.”

Major Open Source Projects 

CA is also working with other commercial members of
the open source community to help drive development of
trusted open source technologies:

CA and JBoss, Inc. plan to create complete solution
comprising open source software that addresses the
need for high-performance relational storage in
conjunction with J2EE-based Application Servers.

CA and Zope plan to provide customers with scalable,
open source content management solutions that are
compatible with relational database technology and
meet enterprise demands for performance, data
persistence and manageability.

CA is developing and submitting to open source the
KGEM instrumentation. KGEM, a new kernel facility that
enables management applications to work with Linux in
a standardized way. Interfaces for management software
can now be built into and shipped with every Linux
distribution.

CA announced the industry's first open source
management technology stack, ijpl (ingres, java,
python, linux), that delivers the speed of Ingres, the
power of Java and Python, and the quality of Linux to
foster growth and innovation of management software. 
Strong Community Support 

CA is committed to supporting open source foundations
and corporations to further foster open source
development and innovation. CA is a founding member of
the newly announced Plone Foundation, which will help
accelerate the growth and maturation of Plone
technology. CA is also an active member of kernel.org,
Open Forum Europe, Open Group, Open Source Development
Lab and the Embedded Linux Consortium.

“Open source has already brought immense changes
to the IT market with Linux, Apache, and Tomcat. CA's
announcements mean that mission-critical database and
content management are now also likely to be driven by
open source,” said Robin Bloor, chairman and
research director of Baroudi Bloor. “Open source
tends to become more successful when it gets the
backing of a major software vendor who can help move
it into the enterprise.”

For additional information on how CA is driving
innovation and embracing the open source community
please visit http://ca.com/opensource.
 
About CA 

Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE:CA), the
world's largest management software company, delivers
software and services across infrastructure, security,
storage and life cycle management to optimize the
performance, reliability and efficiency of enterprise
IT environments. Founded in 1976, CA is headquartered
in Islandia, N.Y., and operates in more than 100
countries. For more information, please visit
http://ca.com.

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