BMC Software® Maintains Worldwide Market Share Lead in Data Management Facilities and Performance Management Software

Competitive Analysis Report Ranks BMC Software Number One in Market Share for 2002

Editor's Summary: BMC Software today announced: It has been named the market leader in Data Management Facilities by IDC for the seventh consecutive year; and It has been named the worldwide Performance Management leader by IDC for the second consecutive year.

HOUSTON - (August 20, 2003) - BMC Software. Inc. (NYSE: BMC), a leader in enterprise management, today announced it has been ranked the overall market share leader in the Data Management Facilities and the Performance Management Software markets by research firm International Data Corporation (IDC). According to Steve McClure, a research vice president in IDC's Software Research Group, BMC Software has maintained its worldwide leadership position in the Data Management Facilities market for the seventh consecutive year², maintaining a solid lead with 47.7% market share. BMC Software also maintained its market share lead in Worldwide Performance Management Software market for the second consecutive year².

"BMC is committed to providing exceptional management solutions that empower IT to deliver strategic business value," said Bill Miller, vice president and general manager, Enterprise Data Management. "From the database across the entire IT environment, our industry leading management solutions play a critical role in assuring optimal business performance."

Data Management Highlights
BMC Software continues to aggressively build upon its data management portfolio for the distributed and mainframe environments, providing database administrators (DBAs) with solutions that address their administration, performance, and recovery needs for optimal performance of the entire database infrastructure. During 2002, BMC Software outlined its blueprint for lowering the cost of managing data across the enterprise. The goal of its initiative is to provide deeper levels of interoperability and integration between management tools for mainframe and distributed database management systems (DBMSs) by bridging them with the Company's SmartDBA Web-based console and technologies.

BMC Software continues to set the standard for the database management facilities market. By providing intelligent, automated data management tools that have a common look and feel across all database platforms, BMC Software is reducing data management costs by eliminating the need for databases to be offline and for companies to have "experts" for each database. Additional highlights of 2002 include:

• significant new enhancements that extend the capabilities of BMC Software's SmartDBA family of Web-based management solutions that detect, diagnose, and correct database performance issues and provide a common interface to DB2® UDB, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server databases;
• the integration of BMC Software's industry leading backup and recovery tool, SQL-BackTrack, with its SmartDBA Web-based console to create the industry's first comprehensive, fully integrated data management solution; and
• new second-generation DB2 V7 mainframe solutions and DB2 Universal Database (UDB) solutions running on Unix and NT platforms, featuring tighter levels of integration and new built-in intelligence features and the initial integration of BMC Software's DB2 UDB offerings with its SmartDBA console.

For additional information on BMC Software's data management products, including the entire SmartDBA family, please visit http://www.bmc.com/solutions/database/.

Performance Management Highlights
BMC Software continues to set the standard for performance management by aggressively developing and providing solutions that increase customers infrastructure, application and service management capabilities, helping customers to proactively manage their resources and meet their demanding service level agreements. Over the past year, BMC Software has introduced new solutions both for the distributed and mainframe markets to improve customer's return on investment (ROI) and provide cost savings to IT.

Leveraging its distributed management solution PATROL®, BMC Software introduced an innovative approach to enterprise management, the sliding scale of management, which matches infrastructure monitoring and management products to customers' needs. Since not all systems require the same level of management, IT departments can reduce costs and increase ROI by choosing the right tools for each system. Utilizing the PATROL family of solutions, customers are able to choose from light-weight entry level monitoring to advanced proactive management with solutions that seamlessly integrate through one centralized Web-based interface. Additional highlights of 2002 include:

• adding new fault management capabilities to PATROL Visualis Fault Manager, BMC Software's advanced graphical network performance modeling tool. With these new capabilities, PATROL Visualis sets a new standard in network management as the first graphical solution to combine network discovery and network traffic flows modeling with fault management, dramatically improving problem resolution;
• enhanced its deep management of mission-critical servers with the release of PATROL for Microsoft Windows Servers 3.0 and PATROL for Unix 9.0. These releases include improved workflow and out-of-the-box functionality that allows customers to proactively manage their servers, which is a prerequisite for a company to achieve optimum service management;
• a new Enterprise Performance Assurance initiative which delivers performance and prediction analysis tools that enable companies to better understand and manage the performance of their IT infrastructure. As part of this initiative, BMC Software introduced new distributed solutions and a roadmap for future mainframe solutions;
• PATROL Express, a new entry-level application monitoring solution that delivers agent-less monitoring, reducing the cost of deployment and change management for the enterprise;
• continued delivery of integrated, easy-to-use and cost effective solutions from BMC Software's mainframe product line, MAINVIEW®, which monitors, manages, automates and optimizes z/OS and OS/390 applications and resources; and
• new Linux solutions designed to ease the deployment of the critical Linux environment.

About BMC Software
BMC Software, Inc. [NYSE:BMC], is a leading provider of enterprise management solutions that empower companies to manage their IT infrastructure from a business perspective. Delivering Business Service Management, BMC Software solutions span enterprise systems, applications, databases and service management. Founded in 1980, BMC Software has offices worldwide and fiscal 2003 revenues of more than $1.3 billion. For more information about BMC Software, visit www.bmc.com.

Public Relations Contacts:
Julie Akstin-Dearing
BMC Software
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Linda McDowell
BMC Software
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¹Please note, IDC has modified its taxonomy this year creating a new category, Data Management Facilities. Previous data management market share reports where categorized as Database Tools & Utilities which is now a component of this category.
²According to IDC's 2002 Performance and Availability Market Share report.