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Legent Hotline (LEGINFO)        June 1, 1993

Welcome to the HP 9000 Legent Hotline.  This hotline will be updated
regularly with the latest information on the Legent products and programs
for the HP 9000 Series 800.  For more information, you can contact the
following people:

          Rich Roe/      Legent Account Manager   410/T362-7607
          Nancy Twombly  GSY Account Manager      408/T447-4302



Table of Contents                   6/1/93

1.  What's New??
2.  Legent Corporate Background
3.  HP/Legent Press Release (2/9)
4.  Legent Product Descriptions for HP-UX
5.  Legent/Tivoli Relationship
6.  Legent/HP Q&A
7.  Legent sales offices

1.  What's New???

     XCOM 6.2, Legent's leading mission-critical file-transfer
     application, is now available on HP-UX Releases 8.02 and 9.0.
     Contact Legent's local sales office for more information.

     Stay tuned for more information and announcements on
     the Legent relationship....

2.  Legent Corporate Background

     Legent Corporation is one of the largest software companies in the world,
     with revenues of $426 million in 1992.  Legent is a leading international
     supplier of enterprise-wide solutions for the management and operations
     of IS organizations.  Legent's products and services help Fortune 500
     manufacturing companies, major financial institutions, government
     agencies and a range of other customers maximize the full potential of
     information technology in their business.  Legent is headquartered in
     Vienna, VA.  Principal operations centers are located in Pittsburg, PA;
     Westborough, MA; New York City; Santa Ana, Calif; and Houston, Texas.
     Legent has its international headquarters in Slough, England.  Additional
     offices and agents are located throughout Canada, Europe, Asia, South
     America and Australia.

     Legent has 65,000 products in use at more than 10,000 customer sites
     around the globe.  The company's portfolio of more than 130 products, many
     of which are market leaders, are offered in four critical IS management
     disciplines--Data Center Management, Resource Management, Network
     Management, and Applications Management.  These set of product areas are
     united and anchored by a unique set of enabling technologies.  These
     technologies include a strategy for a comprehensive data model, a
     communications model, graphical user interfaces (GUIs), measurement
     technology, knowledge bases, and standards.  Together the technologies
     form the foundation for an open, comprehensive, and enterprise wide
     strategy for IT management, across all platforms.

     Legent's 12 development centers around the globe are dedicated to
     enhancing current technologies and creating innovative products to
     maximize customers' investment.  Legent invests approximately 24% of
     its revenue in research, development, and support.  Compliance with
     industry standards is a priority to Legent.  The company is committed
     to IBM System View standards and offers more System View-compliant
     solutions than any other software vendor.  Legent is also a member of
     OSF, and is committed to development of solutions for alternative
     frameworks including DME, DCE, OSI and others.


3.  HP/Legent Press Release (released 2/9/93)

     Legent AND HP TARGET APPLICATIONS MANAGEMENT

     Industry Leaders Collaborate for Open Systems

     Boston, Feb. 9, 1993- Legent Corporation and Hewlett-Packard Company
     today announced a cooperative marketing and joint development pact
     between the two companies designed to offer enterprise-wide system
     management solutions.  This will enable customers to manage large
     distributed environments and integrate existing systems with open
     systems computing frameworks.

     With this announcement, Legent will port its leading software
     management product family, Endevor, to HP 9000 computer environments
     running the HP-UX operating system. In addition, Legent and HP will
     collaborate to integrate Endevor with HP's SoftBench, the de facto
     industry-standard development framework.

     "This relationship complements Legent's strategy to provide our
     customers enterprise-wide systems management solutions and expand into
     open systems environments, where HP is a recognized leader" said Bob
     Yellin, Legent's senior vice-president of development.  "Legent and HP
     customers will benefit from having the market-leading applications
     management solution to develop applications for client/server and open
     systems management."

     "Legent's stature in the large systems software market reinforces HP's
     commercial systems strategy," said Bernard Guidon, general manager of
     HP's General Systems Division.  "This pact will benefit customers seeking
     a cost-effective, open systems alternative to their traditional computing
     environments.  I expect this to be the first in a series of relationships
     to be formed between the two organizations."

     Legent's Endevor represents the industry-standard solution for automating
     the process of managing software development.  This approach ensures
     integrity and consistency within business critical applications. HP's
     SoftBench framework is a widely accepted application integration
     environment that provides a common interface to and communication among a
     wide variety of programming tools.

     Product testing is anticipated by the end of 1993.

     Legent Corporation (NASDAQ:LGNT), headquartered in Vienna, VA., is a
     leading international supplier of systems software and service for the
     management and operations of IS enterprises.  Legent's products and
     services are designed to help customers maximize the full potential of
     information technology in their businesses.  Legent has 65,000 products
     in use at 10,000 customer sites.

     Hewlett-Packard Company is an international manufacturer of measurement
     and computation products and systems recognized for excellence in quality
     and support.  The company's products are used in industry, business,
     engineering, science, medicine, and education in approximately 110
     countries.  HP has 92,600 employees and had revenues of $16.4 billion in
     its 1992 fiscal year.

     All products mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective
     companies

 4. Legent Product Descriptions

     Endevor (Configuration/Change management) (available late '93/early
     '94)

     Endevor is Legent's family of automated application management products
     which provide an integrated environment for controlling the entire
     software development life cycle-from management of existing libraries to
     the configuration and release of new packages.  Automation eliminates
     time consuming manual tasks, increases productivity and reduces the
     chance of human error . Endevor supports many different platforms,
     operating environments, and application development languages.

     XCOM 6.2 (formerly from Spectrum Concepts) (available today)

     AVAILABLE TODAY ON HP-UX RELEASES 8.02 and 9.0

     XCOM 6.2 is a family of high-speed, high-volume software products
     designed for mission-critical file transfer applications.  XCOM 6.2 is
     the first off-the- shelf software product which utilizes the APPC
     capabilities of IBM's LU 6.2 communications protocol.  XCOM 6.2 provides
     a complete set of file transfer functions, remote report printing, and
     job submission for any-to-any communications betweeen mainframes,
     midranges, LANs, workstations, and PCs.  Because of the underlying LU 6.2
     technology, XCOM 6.2 supports unattended and bidirectional transfers,
     checkpoint restart, and transfer initiation by either side between all of
     the following platforms in addition to HP-UX: MVS, VM, DOS/VSE, PC-DOS,
     OS/2, LAN gateways, VAX/VMS, AS/400, S/38, S/36, Data General, S/88,
     Tandem, and Macintosh.

5.  Legent/Tivoli Announcement

In addition to the HP/Legent relationship announcement,  Legent has also
announced a relationship with Tivoli systems.  As part of this relationship:

       1.  Legent has licensed Tivoli's framework (sometimes
           called TME) but has not licensed the applications
           that accompany the framework.  Legent will port
           the framework to IBM's MVS by late '93.

       2.  Legent and Tivoli will be doing joint development
           on future projects (not yet specified)

       3.  Legent has made an equity investment in Tivoli
           (<10%) and will have a seat on their board


6.  Q&A (For internal use only)

     Q. Given HP and Tivoli's recently announced relationship, what impact
     does does this have on Legent?

     A. Legent, Tivoli, and HP all have agreements with each other covering
     covering various aspects of their respective technologies and market
     areas.  All three companies will cooperating and communicate together,
     either directly, based on specific product and technology areas, or
     indirectly by working toward common goals and objectives.

     Q. How do HP's OpenView and Tivoli's TME complement each other, both
     both at the framework level and also at the application level?

     A. The Tivoli Management environment and HP OpenView technologies
     constitute a major portion of OSF's DME, an important forthcoming
     forthcoming standard for distributed systems management.  Therefore, the
     two products are very complementary at the framework level, and both
     provide a fast, easy path to DME.  At the applications level, the two
     offer complementary and overlapping technology.

     The bottom line is that the combination of TME and OpenView on HP systems
     gives the customers the industry's broadest choice of solutions for
     network and systems management.  Many customers will choose both TME and
     OpenView, and will find the combination very satisfactory.


     Q. Why did HP choose Legent?

     A. Legent is one of the leading independent mainframe software vendors in
     the world, and a preferred provider to corporate MIS.  A majority of the
     installed IBM mainframes use Legent sotware for mainframe systems
     management. Legent's support of their software on HP-UX will provide HP
     access to IBM datacenters to offer less expensive Unix solutions as
     alternatives to more costly mainframes.  Legent's excellent reputation as
     a quality provider of solutions and services matches well with HP's
     philosophies.


     Q. What are the specifics of the relationship between Legent and HP?

     A. Legent and HP will be cooperating to move Legent's software
     management family of products, Endevor, to the HP-UX platform.  In
     addition, Legent and HP will integrate Endevor with HP's SoftBench
     product, a distributed application development environment.

     HP and Legent will continue to market and sell their own respectives
     products.  HP will assist Legent with technical expertise, appropriate
     hardware and software, as well as on-going support and education.


     Q. What is SoftBench?

     A. SoftBench is HP's distributed application development environment.
     Through its use of messaging, SoftBench is able to integrate multiple,
     heterogeneous application deveopment tools.  Tools such as compilers,
     debuggers, design aids, and software management can now work together
     and provide a consistent framework while developing consistent framework
     while developing applications.

     SoftBench has been adopted by many vendors in the Open Systems
     marketplace and is widely used and accepted in the industry.  CASE
     COMMUNIQUE is a standards group which has been formed to help standards
     group which has been formed to help refine and standardize how tools
     interoperate using SoftBench.

     Q. Why has Legent chosen to integrate into the SoftBench framework?

     A. In the open systems arena, the SoftBench framework is the de-facto
     standard application integration environment, with over 26,000
     installation worldwide.  This integration will allow customers to have a
     complete environment for the development and deployment of their
     applications.

     Q. When will it be available on HP-UX?

     A. Product testing is anticipated for the end of 1993.

     Q. Which HP systems will this be available on?

     A. Endevor will be available on the HP 9000 Series 800 Business Servers
     and the Series 700 workstations.

     Q. Is Legent supporting any other platforms?

     A. Legent will also be porting their software to Sun and IBM's AIX.

     Q. What are the benefits of this product announcement to users?

     A. As systems become more complex and more heterogeneous, managing and
     controlling software throughout the enterprise becomes a more difficult
     task.  As applications spread throughout the enterprise, auditors will
     demand the same accountability and controls that exist in mainframe
     systems.

     The problem is compounded by parallel development taking place on
     multiple different servers (i.e. Unix, OS/2) connected to multiple
     different desktops (ie. DOS, and windows).  Additionally, these
     applications may be deployed to yet another configuration (ie. AS400)

     Endevor is designed to solve many of these problems.  It offers customers
     a single distributed approach to managing software and applications
     throughout the network.  Endevor spans multiple, different heterogeneous
     hardware and software environments through the enterprise.


     Q. Is this strategy for the HP 9000 only? What is being done for the HP
     3000 customers who have the same needs?

     A. The Legent and HP announcement relates to the HP 9000 only at this
     time.  However, the SoftBench integration allows Endevor to access
     libraries, compile, and debug code on remote servers, including remote
     HP 3000 servers running SoftBench Link 3000 by SAIC.


     Q. How is this different than Legent's Sun relationship?

     In addition to porting Endevor to HP's HP-UX, the agreement with HP
     agreement with HP also calls for Endevor to be integrated with HP's
     product, SoftBench.  Endevor is Legent's family of software management
     tools, while SoftBench is HP's distributed application development
     environment.  The SUN agreement also deals with Endevor, but lacks the
     integration with a corresponding development environment.

     Furthermore, Legent and HP have ongoing discussions about relationships
     in other areas of system management. While no agreements have been
     reached as of yet, dialogues continue.

     Q. Which applications do you expect to come across from Legent next?

     A. Legent and the responsible HP Divisions are discussing which products
     maximize our market impact and evaluating the technologies are required
     to bring them across.  We will be making announcements as decisions are
     made.

     Q. How does this offering differentiate Legent from its competition in
     the configuration and change management areas?

     A. While some competitors offer some aspects of version control, no
     control, no other product provides rich functionality, commercial
     utilization and production-level controls offered by Endevor.  Now with
     the migration of Endevor onto many platforms, it is possible to have a
     single software management tool which spans multiple, heterogeneous
     platforms throughout the enterprise.  Customers can implement the same
     methodology and achieve consistent controls regardless of environment or
     platform.  In addition, the complete environment will be integrated and
     interoperable with other copies of Endevor throughout the enterprise.

     Q. What impact does the Legent-HP announcement have on HP's previously
     announced agreement with Computer Associates?

     A. As a leading open systems vendor, HP is a strong advocate of
     providing providing our customers with the broadest range of options
     available.  Making both Legent and Computer Associates solutions
     available on our systems demonstrates that commitment to choice.

     Q. What other relationships is Legent planning?

     A. Legent will continue to pursue partners which can provide Legent with
     technology building blocks, market access, or technical expertise toward
     providing enterprise-wide systems management solutions.  These
     relationships may be expressed in the form of a cooperative marketing
     relationship or some form of financial agreement.  A probable example may
     be additional platform announcements which can offer Legent further
     insight into specific issues.

7.  Legent Sales Offices

     8615 Westwood Center Drv.  703-734-9494
     Vienna, VA   22182-2218

     Brussels, Belgium        02/725-65-02
     Dusseldorf, Germany      02 11/4 95 40
     Frankfurt, Germany       49-69-6-64-47-0
     Gladesville, Australia   61-2 879 7055
     Hertfordshire, UK        44-727=41241
     Milan, Italy             02-95301818
     Nieuwegein, Netherlands  03402-51676
     Paris, France            46-92-53-53
     Singapore, Singapore     65-299-4339
     Slough, UK               0753-531222
     Sydney, Australia        61-2-959-4066
     Tokyo, Japan             81-3-3366-4211
     Wemmel, Belgium          32-2-46-10555
     Zurich, Switzerland      4612146

     International Agents
     Copenhagen, Denmark      48-140505
     Espoo, Finland           90-4523988
     Istanbul, Turkey         01-356-0947
     Lisbon, Portugal         01-575657
     Madrid, Spain            91-3572400
     Milan, Italy             02-86454652
     Sao Paulo, Brazil        011-289-00099
     Seoul, Korea             82-2-533-9505
     Stockholm, Sweden        08-390160
     TelAviv, Israel          03-5624591