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CoroSoft for Datacenter Orchestration Selected by BMC Software

CoroSoft Best-in-Class Datacenter Orchestration now integrated with BMC Software PATROL® and BMC® Service Impact Manager

      SUNNYVALE, CALIF. - (August 16, 2004) - CoroSoft Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of datacenter orchestration solutions, today announced that BMC Software, Inc., [NYSE: BMC], a leading provider of enterprise management solutions, has agreed to resell CoroSoft's Orchestration Suite to complement its Infrastructure and Business Service Management solutions. This distribution arrangement is a component of CoroSoft's enrollment in BMC Software's MarketZone partner products program. Under the agreement, BMC Software will distribute CoroSoft's Orchestration Suite to further strengthen BMC Software's application management offerings.

"We found CoroSoft's datacenter orchestration and infrastructure resource optimization to be best-in-class today and easy to integrate with BMC's Business Service Management solutions," said Fred Johannessen, vice president at BMC Software. "CoroSoft's ability to orchestrate the underlying infrastructure automatically enables our customers to improve business service while reducing costs."

The CoroSoft Orchestration Suite offering is comprised of the CoroSoft Director providing policy-based resource orchestration for automated scale-out, scale-in and replacement to maintain application service levels, CoroSoft Automation Modules delivering application startup, shutdown and monitoring for most leading datacenter applications, and CoroSoft Adapters providing automatic connectivity management of leading network and storage devices from load balancers to storage area networks (SANs).

CoroSoft utilizes application metrics from BMC Software's PATROL solution line to make policy-based decisions for automated resource orchestration. "We are delighted to have BMC Software reselling CoroSoft Orchestration Suite on a global basis," said Bruce Talley, president and CEO of CoroSoft. "Enterprises rely on BMC Software to improve service, reduce costs and increase value to the bottom line. This agreement will allow us to align our development efforts so that BMC customers can depend on the benefits of our long-term relationship." The MarketZone program enables BMC Software to reduce time-to-market in delivering leading- edge technologies to its customers. BMC Software will market the CoroSoft solutions directly through its sales force and resellers.

CoroSoft Orchestration Suite
CoroSoft monitors application services to detect degradation of service level performance, caused by increased user load, application changes or underlying hardware failures. CoroSoft's product, with its policy-based orchestration, dynamically provisions additional application servers, and automatically connects them to the appropriate networks and storage resources. Customer can improve server infrastructure utilization by four times and reduce cost by 40% through the server consolidation enabled by CoroSoft and BMC.

About CoroSoft
CoroSoft's software delivers world-class, policy-based application infrastructure orchestration for datacenters. CoroSoft's datacenter automation software delivers a comprehensive solution that features self-monitoring, self-provisioning, self-healing and self-scaling technology, while providing a fast, measurable payback. CoroSoft enables businesses to automate and virtualize the underlying infrastructure for applications including the network, servers and storage systems helping reduce costs, improve service levels and increase IT asset utilization. The company serves Fortune 2000 enterprise customers in select vertical markets. Founded in 2001, CoroSoft is privately funded. CoroSoft is located in Sunnyvale, CA. Visit CoroSoft's web site at www.corosoft.com.

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 2004 revenues of more than $1.4 billion. For more information about BMC Software, visit www.bmc.com.

Public Relations Contact:
Marainn Truby
CoroSoft Technologies, Inc.
Director, Press Relations
408-732-7585
mariann.truby@corosoft.com

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