Computer Associates President and CEO John Swainson to Give Keynote at

ISLANDIA, N.Y., Feb. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Computer Associates International, Inc. today announced that its President and Chief Executive Officer, John Swainson, will give a keynote address at LinuxWorld Conference and Expo on Tuesday, February 15, at 2:45 p.m. EST at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, Mass.

Entitled "Open Source Meets the Enterprise," Swainson will discuss the current and emerging state of Linux and open source technology and how companies around the world are building commercial enterprise solutions around open source solutions like Linux. He will also address the need for organizations to embrace open standards, have an open source strategy in place and continue to innovate, add value and create new solutions to meet the needs of customers.

The keynote will be broadcast via webcast at http://ca.com/media/js_keynote_lw05.ram for RealMedia and http://ca.com/media/js_keynote_lw05.asx for Windows Media.

Additionally, Tony Gaughan, senior vice president of development at CA, will be participating in a panel session with other industry executives from IBM, db4objects, MySQL and Sleepycat Software entitled "The Business of Open Source Databases" on Tuesday, February 15 at 1:15 p.m. EST at the conference.

CA will also be holding presentations covering a variety of topics on Linux and open source solutions at Booth #1001 Tuesday, February 15 through Thursday, February 17. Innovative solutions for Linux from CA's AllFusion, BrightStor, eTrust and Unicenter brands and CA's Ingres open source database will be shown at the booth. Trial CDs of BrightStor ARCserve Backup for Linux will be distributed at the booth and as an added bonus the first 1,000 people to visit the booth will receive a CD of Ingres r3 with one month of free support.

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