BMC Software® and GoldenGate Software Form Alliance to Deliver Industry's First Complete Data Management and Real-Time Data Synchronization Solution

Enable IT Personnel to Incorporate Mission Critical Data Synchronization Capabilities into Heterogeneous Database Environments

HOUSTON - (Sept. 2, 2003) - BMC Software. Inc. (NYSE: BMC), a leader in enterprise management, and GoldenGate Software, a leader in Global Data Synchronization, today announced a sales, marketing and technology alliance. The alliance enables BMC Software to extend its SmartDBA data management portfolio with the addition of GoldenGate's data synchronization capabilities, creating the industry's first complete data management and real-time data synchronization solution for heterogeneous environments. IT organizations benefit from the alliance by being able to add vital data synchronization to what is already the broadest range of data management technology available from a single vendor. The combined solution makes it possible for BMC Software to assure the performance, availability and recoverability of data while enabling customers to conduct real-time data replication, synchronization and migration for true data availability across mixed environments.

"The addition of data synchronization to our SmartDBA portfolio extends our mission of providing customers solutions that enable continuous availability of data," said Bill Miller, vice president and general manager, Enterprise Data Management Division, BMC Software. "Adding the ability to handle data movement and real-time bi-directional synchronization across all common distributed database platforms was fundamental in our alliance with GoldenGate and provides a solution no other vendor can offer customers today."

By adding GoldenGate's replication, synchronization and migration capabilities to its SmartDBA data management portfolio, BMC Software is providing customers with a complete end-to-end data management and synchronization solution to address some of IT's toughest challenges. For example, BMC Software and GoldenGate can assure optimum performance and continuity by creating a synchronized business environment that combines real-time data coordination with database infrastructure monitoring and management solutions.

"GoldenGate's real-time functionality and ability to handle the millions of transactions that we process daily made it the obvious choice for Paymentech," said Barry Mera, Technical Services Manager for Paymentech. "Partnering with BMC Software will extend GoldenGate's reach into the market and will add significant benefits to organizations with diverse database environments that require speed."

Customers using the SmartDBA/GoldenGate solution can quickly and easily move and synchronize large volumes of data with zero downtime. Additional customer benefits include:

• Simplifies Complex Environments while allowing for flexibility and freedom of choice for IT components (e.g., storage, software, servers)
• Increases DBA Productivity with tools to optimize database performance and availability across diverse environments
• Lowers TCO by reducing the need for expensive databases, hardware, and software
• Assures Business Continuity by enabling fault tolerance and fast recovery
• Maximizes Data Availability through proactive management, effective workload balancing and fast, high volume data movement

"To enable our solutions to reach a broader customer base, it makes sense for us to team with an industry leader like BMC," said Mike Seashols, CEO, GoldenGate. "Our mutual customers will benefit greatly from this strategic move as we are able to take the strengths of our respective products to create a solution that allows customers to maximize resources, maintain business continuity, and provide quick and accurate data recovery in the event of a disaster."

The alliance moves BMC Software another step forward in its initiative to deliver deeper levels of interoperability and integration in heterogeneous environments. GoldenGate's data synchronization software platform compliments this strategy by providing true heterogeneous management. The SmartDBA/GoldenGate solution offers diversity and flexibility to handle monitoring, management, synchronization and migration of multiple database and operating system platforms without the expense of adding redundant hardware and software.

Business Service Management
BMC Software's SmartDBA data management solutions play a central role in the Company's Business Service Management strategy for enabling companies to manage their business critical services from both an IT and business perspective. SmartDBA products intelligently and proactively manage enterprise data, so customers can achieve high data availability levels at a low cost. The addition of GoldenGate will bring business continuity capabilities to BMC Software's SmartDBA solutions, further enhancing the ability to identify problems before they impact the business, and resolve them in the order of their business priority. For additional information on BMC Software's SmartDBA family as well as the addition of GoldenGate's Data Synchronization solution to the Company's MarketZone Direct distribution program, please visit http://www.bmc.com/solutions/database/.

About GoldenGate
GoldenGate is a leader in Data Synchronization. GoldenGate enables organizations to securely capture, transform, move, and migrate data in real-time inside and outside the enterprise to support key business and technology initiatives such as Business Continuity, Active Data Warehousing, Application Integration, Disaster Recovery, Data Center Consolidation. GoldenGate's Data Synchronization software platform captures and delivers any "changed" data at sub-second speeds in massive volumes across any popular diverse data environment such as DB2®, Oracle, HP NonStop SQL/MP and SQL/MX, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server and Teradata. GoldenGate is a private company with eight years of revenue growth and profitability and has thousands of installations in over 20 countries. Customers include: Bank of America, Bank One, VISA, Merrill Lynch, Mayo Clinic, Legacy Health System, Comcast Communications, AOL/Time Warner and Dell Computer. For more information, please visit the company's web site at www.goldengate.com or call (415) 289 8600.

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.

Public Relations Contacts:
Julie Akstin-Dearing
BMC Software
713-918-1434
julie_dearing@bmc.com

Deirdre Mahon
GoldenGate Software
415-339-7946
dmahon@goldengate.com