Computer Associates Launches CA-TV to Deliver Personalized Content Directly to Clients and Channel Partners

Employs BackWeb Technology To Deliver Content and Data Using Spare Bandwidth

Islandia, N.Y., (June 8, 1998) -- Computer Associates International, Inc., (CA), today launched "CA-TV" -- a no-cost Internet-based service that proactively delivers news about CA, technical updates, software maintenance releases and sales promotions, directly to clients, channel partners, and other subscribers. CA-TV also supports LAN-attached and mobile users wherever there is Internet connectivity.

Powered by software from BackWeb Technologies, Inc., CA-TV (www.cai.com) provides information tailored to subscribers' unique needs, and delivers it directly to their desktop.

"BackWeb is a premier information delivery system that will enhance information flow to our clients and channel partners worldwide," said Marc Sokol, CA senior vice president of advanced technology. "CA-TV provides a critical means of communication to our clients and channel partners, automatically providing timely information on CA within user-specified parameters."

News flashes are sent to recipients based on their unique environment and preferences. For example, the Unicenter TNG Microsoft Exchange Option can be promoted via a news flash and sent only to clients who have licensed Unicenter TNG and Microsoft Exchange. Similarly, Inoculan signature files can be sent directly to Inoculan customers' desktops to update their virus protection automatically and instantly.

CA-TV, the first of several CA initiatives involving BackWeb's enterprise push technology, delivers content and data completely in the background. It uses spare bandwidth so that subscribers, for example, won't notice that information is being downloaded until the process is complete. For mobile users, CA-TV has a throttle that accelerates or decelerates downloads based on the subscriber's usage.

BackWeb's knowledge distribution technology seamlessly distributes user-specified information to the desktop, which users can access at their convenience. CA-TV can deliver updates daily, weekly, or monthly. Advanced security features encrypt and digitally sign each message, assuring recipients that the content and data was not tampered with.

The initial implementation of CA-TV provides information on such topics as:

* News about CA and its products
* Technical and product information on Unicenter TNG
* Product information and monthly signature files for Inoculan
* Antivirus for Windows 95 and Windows NT
* CA channel partner programs and promotions

"Receiving real-time information from CA-TV, Computer Associates' customers and other subscribers can immediately begin leveraging CA promotions, make critical business decisions based on CA's product plans, strategies and technical information and stay up-to-date on CA news," said Eli Barkat, BackWeb's CEO. "We're pleased to be able to work with CA to provide them with a superior solution for their knowledge distribution needs. "To register for CA-TV, subscribers need only complete an electronic form that details their areas of interest and computing environment.

Today's announcement builds upon an April 1998 agreement between CA and BackWeb in which the companies agreed to provide Polite Server and Agent technology to Unicenter TNG software delivery clients.

About Computer Associates
Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE: CA), with headquarters in Islandia, N.Y., is the world leader in mission-critical business software. The company develops, licenses and supports more than 500 integrated products that include enterprise computing and information management, application development, manufacturing and financial applications. CA has over 11,000 people in 160 offices in 43 countries and had revenue of $4.7 billion in fiscal year 1998. CA can be reached by visiting www.cai.com on the World Wide Web, emailing info@cai.com, or calling 1-516-342-5224

About BackWeb Technologies
BackWeb Technologies is a leading offline Web software company. BackWeb extends the value of technology investments by offering mobile and remote employees offline access to portals, intranets and other Web-based applications and content. The company's products reduce network costs and improve the productivity of an increasingly mobile workforce. At the core of BackWeb's products is its patented Polite® synchronization technology that can distribute large amounts of data even over narrow bandwidth connections. BackWeb® customers include market leaders such as Boehringer Ingelheim, Centocor, Eastman Kodak, GE Healthcare, Guidant, HP, KLA Tencor, Lam Research, Pfizer and more than one hundred other companies. BackWeb also has strategic reseller alliances with software industry leaders: Plumtree, SAP and IBM. The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif. and Rosh Ha'ayin, Israel. For more information, visit www.backweb.com or call (800) 863-0100.

Statements in this news release, which are not purely historical, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the U.S. Securities laws, including statements of beliefs, plans, expectations or intentions regarding the future. Examples of these statements include, but are not limited to, the ability of BackWeb software to allow customers to gain mobile, disconnected use of their portals and help increase field sales and field service productivity, the integration of BackWeb software with BEA products will help developers extend portal applications for offline use without changing the way they work, and the ability of the resulting applications to help field sales and service organizations realize maximum productivity, cost savings, and process acceleration gains while disconnected from the network. Actual results could differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include unforeseen technological issues related to use of the BackWeb software, deployment issues related to implementation, unforeseen software errors, competitive factors and business and expense factors that may affect the perceived efficiencies from use of BackWeb's products, and the risks and uncertainties detailed from time to time in BackWeb's periodic reports and registration statements filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. BackWeb assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this press release.