Cray/Media:            Mardi Larson, 612/683-3538
BMC Software/Media:    Lisa Cradit, 713/918-4228

CRAY ANNOUNCES AVAILABILITY OF BMC SOFTWARE'S
APPLICATION AND DATA  MANAGEMENT PRODUCTS ON
CS6400 DATABASE SERVERS

SAN JOSE, Calif., July 24, 1995 -- Cray Research, Inc.
announced today that it has signed an agreement with BMC
Software, Inc. to offer BMC Software's application and data
management product lines -- PATROL and MetaSUITE families
-- on the CS6400 enterprise database servers.  Cray said that
these software tools are important in providing an integrated
application and system management solution for very large
database applications with its line of SPARC/Solaris database
servers. 

Last week, BMC Software announced its Preferred Partner
Program, of which Cray Research is a member.  This program
targets both open systems and mainframe product solutions,
including BMC Software's PATROL family of application
management products and the company's MetaSUITE family of
data management products, BMC Software officials said.  The
program is important to Cray Research with its aggressive
push to bring the commercial marketplace a high-end open
systems database server solution with the CS6400 system
operating the leading merchant database systems such as
those from Oracle Corp. and Informix Software, Cray said. 

"Our CS6400 enterprise database servers are the most
scalable and capable open database servers on the market
today," said Jeff Pancottine, director of marketing for Cray's
Business Systems Division.  "These systems are being deployed
at world-class companies like Bank of America, AAA, and
others for data warehousing and OLTP applications supporting
thousands of users accessing very large databases of hundreds
of gigabytes and more.  These environments can create
application management and system administration challenges. 
BMC's suite of software tools provides an excellent method to
integrate the management of open systems in heterogeneous
environments and are assisting us in providing full solutions
to the commercial marketplace."  

"This announcement is the first step in what we feel will be a
long and mutually beneficial relationship between BMC
Software and Cray.  It will give our customers integrated,
best of breed' products for efficient management across the
enterprise," said Bob Beauchamp, director of strategy and
market development for BMC Software.  "With Version 3.0 of
PATROL, we included significant enhancements and new
functionality to ensure greater depth and breadth of the
product.  The availability of PATROL on Cray database servers
is proof positive that PATROL is a highly scalable, robust
product perfectly suited for large-scale environments."

The PATROL suite of application management products
automates and centralizes the control of all the critical
elements in a distributed environment -- data, databases,
servers, applications and networks.  The PATROL architecture
consists of intelligent agent(s), management consoles(s) and
Knowledge Modules. 

The MetaSUITE of data management products allow DBAs to
automate many of the routine tasks associated with database
administration and management.  MetaDESK is the base
product in the MetaSUITE family and provides efficient,
consistent database discovery, monitoring and browsing across
multiple heterogeneous databases from a single graphical user
interface.  MetaMANAGE provides advanced database
administration and manipulation across multiple
heterogeneous databases.  

BMC Software, Inc. (NASDAQ:BMCS) is a worldwide developer
and vendor of Cooperative Enterprise Management Solutions
(CEMS) that automate application and data management across
heterogeneous legacy and open systems environments.  BMC
Software is cooperating with leading vendors throughout the
computer industry to provide its customers with integrated
enterprise-wide data, system, application and network 
management solutions.  The company is headquartered in
Houston, Texas, and offers more than 80 products. 

Cray Research provides the leading high-performance
computing tools and services to help solve customers' most
challenging problems.  Data warehousing, decision support,
transaction processing and multimedia applications which
challenge current technologies are the targets for
Cray Research's new line of highly scalable CS6400 systems.  
  
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