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CRAY RESEARCH ANNOUNCES LICENSING, DISTRIBUTION
AGREEMENT WITH LEGENT CORPORATION FOR OPEN STORAGE
MANAGER
 
ANNECY, France, June 13, 1994 -- Cray Research Inc.
announced today that it has signed a licensing and
distribution agreement with Legent Corporation through
which Cray Research will distribute Legent's Open Storage
Manager (OSM) software.  In addition, Cray Research
officials said that the licensing of OSM provides an
opportunity to develop a high-performance, open
hierarchical storage management (HSM) solution based on
Cray and Legent products.   The announcement was made at
the IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems held here this
week.

OSM is Legent's new storage management product originally
developed by Lachman Technology, Inc., a company recently
acquired by Legent.   As part of the distribution agreement, 
OSM 1.1 -- the latest version available from Legent -- is
scheduled to be available later this year through CraySoft,
Cray Research's business unit that markets software to
users of non-Cray Research hardware.   OSM 1.1 supports
the SunOS 4.1.3 and Solaris 2.3 platforms, including the
CRAY SUPERSERVER 6400, Cray's high-end SPARC/Solaris-
compliant system.  

"An open HSM architecture that will support a full range of
computers including supercomputers, enterprise servers
and workstations is consistent with our Open
Supercomputing strategy," said Irene Qualters, senior vice
president of software for Cray Research.  "We believe the
complimentary skills of both organizations will be
beneficial to our efforts in the area of HSM, and we are
excited about our relationship with Legent."

"Legent is pleased in having a partner of Cray's caliber in
providing state-of-the-art products to our customers and
the market," said Stephen Sasser, vice president and
general manager, systems management division of Legent. 
"Cray's experience and expertise in performance-oriented
solutions coupled with OSM's open, scalable, modular
architecture will be a winning combination."

HSM software products like Legent's OSM and Cray
Research's current product, Data Migration Facility (DMF),
automatically move inactive or infrequently used files from
fast-but-expensive disk storage (online) to less expensive
tape storage devices (offline).  The software then allows
users to transparently retrieve data files stored offline as
if they were stored online.  

The cost-effective data storage capability provided by HSM
technology is important to any system user, according to
Qualters.  Advanced HSM capabilities are particularly
critical to Cray Research system users who often solve
huge problems requiring terabytes (trillions of bytes) of
data, she said.

DMF is Cray Research's proprietary high-performance HSM
software that operates only on Cray Research systems.  DMF
has been available on Cray Research systems for more than
five years; UNITREE(tm) and FILESERV(tm) are also
available on the systems.  

"We have more than 100 customer sites running DMF," said
Qualters.  "Our customers and prospects are operating
increasingly elaborate heterogeneous computer networks
and the OSM technology provides us with an opportunity to
develop a new open HSM solution for Cray Research
systems."  

The distribution agreement allows Cray Research to provide
OSM for workstations and servers, while continuing to
provide DMF.  Later this year, Cray Research expects to
provide a network-wide HSM solution by coupling OSM and
DMF for the Cray Research environment.   Opportunities
exist for Cray Research to develop a client/server HSM
solution with increased scalability, increased I/O speed to
handle larger amounts of data, and an open systems
architecture that will provide compatibility with all UNIX
systems, Qualters said. 

Legent Corporation (NASDAQ: LGNT), headquartered in
Herndon, Virginia, is a worldwide supplier of software and
service for the management of distributed computing
across the enterprise.  Legent's Cross Platform
Environment (XPE) is the company's framework for
distributed enterprise computing that encompasses
interoperable host, server, and desktop computing
environments.  Since 1989, Legent has provided software to
maximize information technology and today has 75,000
products in use at 12,000 customer sites. 

Cray Research provides the leading supercomputing tools
and services to help solve customers' most challenging
problems.

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