BMC SOFTWARE INC
10-Q/A, 1999-02-24
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                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

                                  FORM 10-Q/A
                                  AMENDMENT 1


(Mark One)

[X]      QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d OF THE
         SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934


         For the quarterly period ended September 30, 1998

                                       OR

[ ]      TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
         SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

         For the transition period from ________________  to  _________________

         Commission file number 0-17136


                               BMC SOFTWARE, INC.
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)


           Delaware                                       74-2126120
(State or other jurisdiction of                (IRS Employer identification No.)
 incorporation or organization)



           BMC Software, Inc.
        2101 CityWest Boulevard
             Houston, Texas                                          77042
 (Address of principal executive officer)                          (Zip Code)

Registrant's telephone number including area code: (713)918-8800

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required
to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during
the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was
required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing
requirements for the past 90 days. Yes  X    No
                                       ---      ---

As of November 13, 1998, there were outstanding 215,525,000 shares of Common
Stock, par value $.01, of the registrant.



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                       BMC SOFTWARE, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

                        Quarter Ended September 30, 1998

    The Registrant hereby amends the Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended
September 30, 1998. 

    This amendment is the result of an acquisition of BGS Systems, Inc. (BGS)
which had been accounted for as an immaterial pooling of interests transaction
for which prior periods were not restated to reflect BGS operations in the
Registrant's Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 1998. The
restatement resulted from a change in the Registrant's evaluation of the
materiality of BGS's results of operations and financial position relative to
the Registrant's prior period financial statements.


                                      INDEX



<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                                Page
                                                                                                ----

<S>                                                                                               <C>
PART I.  FINANCIAL INFORMATION
         ---------------------

Item 1.           Financial Statements                                                             3

                  Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets
                  September 30, 1998 (Unaudited) and March 31, 1998                                3

                  Condensed Consolidated Statements of Earnings
                  Three months and six months ended September 30, 
                  1997 and 1998 (Unaudited)                                                        5

                  Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
                  Six months ended September 30, 1997 and 1998
                  (Unaudited)                                                                      6

                  Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial
                  Statements                                                                       7

Item 2.           Management's Discussion and Analysis of Results
                  of Operations and Financial Condition                                            8

                  SIGNATURES                                                                      23
                  ----------
</TABLE>

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Part I.  FINANCIAL INFORMATION

Item 1.  Financial Statements


                       BMC SOFTWARE, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
                      CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
                                 (in thousands)


<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                          March 31,     September 30,
                                             1998           1998
                                          ----------     ----------
                                                        (Unaudited)

<S>                                       <C>            <C>       
                   ASSETS
Current assets:

         Cash and cash equivalents        $   72,093     $  100,982

         Investment securities                56,174         65,855

         Trade accounts receivable           170,778        186,911

         Income tax receivable                40,805             --

         Prepaid expenses and other           34,028         50,010
                                          ----------     ----------

                 Total current assets        373,878        403,758


Property and equipment, net                  162,996        197,813

Software development costs, net               63,475         78,376

Purchased software, net                       32,063         29,272

Investment securities                        587,806        795,762

Deferred charges and other assets             28,277         53,214
                                          ----------     ----------

                                          $1,248,495     $1,558,195
                                          ==========     ==========
</TABLE>



See accompanying notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.

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                       BMC SOFTWARE, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
                      CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
                                 (in thousands)
                                   (continued)

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                               March 31,      September 30,
                                                                 1998              1998
                                                             -----------      -----------
                                                                              (Unaudited)
<S>                                                          <C>              <C>        
     LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY

Current liabilities:
  Trade accounts payable                                     $    11,361      $    13,306
  Accrued liabilities and other                                   81,352          105,370
  Current portion of deferred revenue                            242,821          293,290
                                                             -----------      -----------
    Total current liabilities                                    335,534          411,966
Long-term Liabilities:
  Deferred revenue                                               110,350          152,156
  Other long-term liabilities                                     43,454           48,817
                                                             -----------      -----------
  Total long-term liabilities                                    153,804          200,973
                                                             -----------      -----------
    Total liabilities                                            489,338          612,939
Stockholders' equity:
 Common stock                                                      2,101            2,173
 Additional paid-in capital                                      129,098          137,592
 Retained earnings                                               729,925          863,286
 Foreign currency translation adjustment                          (1,543)          (1,235)
 Unrealized gain on securities available for sale                  3,179            6,525
                                                             -----------      -----------
                                                                 862,760        1,008,341
  Less treasury stock                                             99,513           58,748
  Less unearned portion of restricted stock compensation           4,090            4,337
                                                             -----------      -----------
     Total stockholders' equity                                  759,157          945,256
                                                             -----------      -----------
                                                             $ 1,248,495      $ 1,558,195
                                                             ===========      ===========
</TABLE>


See accompanying notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.

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                       BMC SOFTWARE, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
                  CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF EARNINGS
                      (in thousands, except per share data)
                                   (Unaudited)

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                 Three Months Ended             Six Months Ended
                                                   September 30,                 September 30,
                                             -------------------------     -------------------------
                                                1997           1998           1997           1998
                                             ----------     ----------     ----------     ----------


<S>                                          <C>            <C>            <C>            <C>       
Revenues:
   Licenses                                  $  117,336     $  166,500     $  231,211     $  327,005
   Maintenance                                   58,042         69,398        114,195        134,498
                                             ----------     ----------     ----------     ----------

       Total revenues                           175,378        235,898        345,406        461,503
                                             ----------     ----------     ----------     ----------

Operating expenses:
   Selling and marketing                         49,848         69,684        100,185        134,546
   Research and development                      24,651         33,825         46,526         67,654
   Cost of maintenance services
       and product licenses                      21,884         25,887         42,866         48,792
   General and administrative                    13,675         15,389         25,777         31,591
   Acquired research and
       development costs                          5,201             --         65,473         17,304
                                             ----------     ----------     ----------     ----------

       Total operating expenses                 115,259        144,785        280,827        299,887
                                             ----------     ----------     ----------     ----------

              Operating income                   60,119         91,113         64,579        161,616

Other income                                      7,217         12,685         13,493         22,629
                                             ----------     ----------     ----------     ----------

Earnings before taxes                            67,336        103,798         78,072        184,245

Income taxes                                     20,077         29,083         39,162         50,884
                                             ----------     ----------     ----------     ----------

Net earnings                                 $   47,259     $   74,715     $   38,910     $  133,361
                                             ==========     ==========     ==========     ==========

Basic earnings per share                     $      .23     $      .35     $      .19     $      .62
                                             ==========     ==========     ==========     ==========

Shares used in computing basic
   earnings per share                           210,040        215,066        210,063        214,534
                                             ==========     ==========     ==========     ==========

Diluted earnings per share                   $      .21     $      .33     $      .17     $      .58
                                             ==========     ==========     ==========     ==========

Shares used in computing diluted                
  earnings per share                            224,488        228,425        224,205        227,975
                                             ==========     ==========     ==========     ==========
</TABLE>

See accompanying notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.

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                       BMC SOFTWARE, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
                 CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
                                 (in thousands)
                                   (Unaudited)
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                          Six Months Ended
                                                                                           September 30,
                                                                                -----------------------------------
                                                                                   1997                     1998
                                                                                ----------               ----------
<S>                                                                             <C>                      <C>
Cash flows from operating activities:
     Net earnings (loss)                                                        $   38,910               $   133,361
     Adjustments to reconcile net earnings       
      to net cash provided by operating
      activities:
       Acquired research and development costs                                      65,473                    17,304
       Depreciation and amortization                                                25,576                    30,212
       Net change in receivables,
        payables and other items                                                     3,433                   115,152
                                                                                ----------               -----------
         Total adjustments                                                          94,482                   162,668  
                                                                                ----------               -----------
          Net cash provided by operating activities                                133,392                   296,029
                                                                                ----------               -----------

Cash flows from investing activities:
  Technology acquisitions, net of cash acquired                                    (66,989)                   (6,400)
  Purchased software and related assets                                             (1,718)                     (903)
  Capital expenditures                                                             (37,336)                  (43,804)
  Capitalization of software development                                           (19,258)                  (28,415)
  Purchases of securities held to maturity                                         (54,539)                 (237,929)
  Proceeds from securities held to maturity                                         47,058                    23,638
  (Increase) decrease in long-term finance receivables                                (124)                  (21,797)
                                                                                ----------               -----------
          Net cash used in investing activities                                   (132,906)                 (315,610)
                                                                                ----------               -----------

Cash flows from financing activities:
  Income tax reduction relating to stock options                                    13,170                    37,177
  Dividends paid                                                                    (3,765)                       --
  Stock options exercised and other                                                 11,957                    10,985
  Treasury stock acquired                                                          (37,928)                       --
                                                                                ----------               -----------
        Net cash used in financing activities                                      (16,566)                   48,162
                                                                                ----------               -----------
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash                                                (75)                      308
                                                                                ----------               -----------
Net change in cash and cash equivalents                                            (16,155)                   28,889

Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period                                    89,790                    72,093
                                                                                ----------               -----------
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period                                      $   73,635               $   100,982   
                                                                                ==========               ===========

Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information:
     Cash paid for income taxes                                                 $   24,770               $     2,234
</TABLE>

See accompanying notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.

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                       BMC SOFTWARE, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
              Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements


Note 1 - Basis of Presentation

         The accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements include
the accounts of BMC Software, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiaries
(collectively, the "Company"). All significant intercompany balances and
transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.

         The accompanying unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial
statements reflect all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring accruals)
which, in the opinion of management, are necessary for a fair presentation of
the results for the interim periods presented. These financial statements have
been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles for
interim financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article
10 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information
and footnotes required by generally accepted accounting principles for complete
financial statements.

         These financial statements should be read in conjunction with the
Company's annual audited financial statements for the year ended March 31, 1998,
as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Form 10-K.

Note 2 - Earnings Per Share

         The Company presents its earnings per share in accordance with
Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 128, "Earnings Per
Share". SFAS No. 128 requires dual presentation of earnings per share (EPS);
basic EPS and diluted EPS. Basic EPS is computed by dividing net income by the
weighted average number of common shares outstanding for the period. Diluted EPS
reflects the potential dilution that could occur if securities or other
contracts to issue common stock were exercised or converted into common stock.
For purposes of this calculation, outstanding stock options and unearned
restricted stock are considered common stock equivalents using the treasury
stock method.

Note 3 - Stock Split

         On April 20, 1998, the Company's board of directors declared a
two-for-one stock split. The stock split was effected in the form of a stock
dividend. The stockholders of record received one share of common stock for each
share held. All stock related data in the condensed consolidated financial
statements and related notes reflect this stock split for all periods presented.

Note 4 - Comprehensive Income

         In June 1997, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued
SFAS No. 130, "Reporting Comprehensive Income". SFAS No. 130 requires the
presentation of a Comprehensive Income Statement that is to be presented with
other general financial statements. This statement is effective for the
Company's fiscal year end 1999. The following table sets forth the calculation
of comprehensive income for the following periods:

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                    Three Months Ended        Six Months Ended
                                       September 30             September 30
                                      (in thousands)           (in thousands)
                                     1997      1998             1997      1998
                                   --------  --------         --------  --------
<S>                                <C>       <C>              <C>       <C>
Net earnings ...................   $47,259   $74,715          $38,910   $133,361
Foreign currency translation
  gains/losses .................      (166)      213               --        308
Unrealized gain on securities
  available for sale ...........       969     2,018            3,311      3,346
                                   -------   -------          -------   --------
    Total comprehensive income .   $48,062   $76,946          $42,221   $137,015
                                   =======   =======          =======   ========
</TABLE>

Note 5 - Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities

         In June 1998, the FASB issued SFAS No. 133, "Accounting for Derivative
Instruments and Hedging Activities." The Statement establishes accounting and
reporting standards requiring that every derivative instrument be recorded in
the balance sheet as either an asset or liability measured at its fair value.
The Statement also requires that changes in a derivative's fair value be
recognized currently in earnings unless specific hedge accounting criteria are
met. SFAS No. 133 is effective for the Company at the beginning of its fiscal
year 2000. The Company has not yet quantified the impact of adopting SFAS No.
133 on its financial statements.

Note 6 - Subsequent Event

         On November 2, 1998, the Company announced its intention to merge with
Boole & Babbage, Inc. (Boole) (the Merger) through an exchange of common stock
and stock options using an exchange rate of .675 shares of BMC Software common
stock for each share of Boole common stock. The Company expects to account for
this transaction using the pooling of interests method. The Merger is subject to
approval by the Boole stockholders and review by certain governmental and 
regulatory bodies.

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                       BMC SOFTWARE, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
                     Management's Discussion and Analysis of
                  Results of Operations and Financial Condition


Item 2.  Management's Discussion and Analysis of Results of Operations and
         Financial Condition

         This section of the Form 10-Q includes historical information for the
periods covered, certain forward looking information and the information
provided below under the heading "Certain Risks and Uncertainties that Could
Affect Future Operating Results" about certain risks and uncertainties that
could cause the Company's future operating results to differ from the results
indicated by any forward looking statements made by the Company or others. It is
important that the historical discussion below be read together with the
attached consolidated financial statements and notes thereto, with the
discussion of such risks and uncertainties and with the audited financial
statements and notes thereto, and the Management's Discussion and Analysis of
Results of Operations and Financial Condition, contained in the Company's Form
10-K for fiscal 1998.

A.       RESULTS OF OPERATION AND FINANCIAL CONDITION
           

         The following table sets forth, for the periods indicated, the
percentages that selected items in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of
Earnings bear to total revenues. These comparisons of financial results are not
necessarily indicative of future results.

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                      Percentage of Total Revenues
                                                            -----------------------------------------------
                                                             Three Months Ended           Six Months Ended
                                                                September 30,              September 30,
                                                            -------------------         -------------------
                                                             1997          1998         1997           1998
                                                            -----         -----         -----         -----
<S>                                                         <C>           <C>           <C>           <C>  
Revenues:
  License                                                    66.9%         70.6%         66.9%         70.9%
  Maintenance                                                33.1          29.4          33.1          29.1
                                                            -----         -----         -----         -----
    Total revenues                                          100.0         100.0         100.0         100.0

Operating expenses:
  Selling and marketing                                      28.4          29.6          29.0          29.2
  Research and development                                   14.1          14.3          13.5          14.7
  Cost of maintenance services
   and product licenses                                      12.5          11.0          12.4          10.6
  General and administrative                                  7.8           6.5           7.4           6.8
  Acquired research and development costs                     3.0          --            19.0           3.7
                                                            -----         -----         -----         -----

Operating income                                             34.2          38.6          18.7          35.0

Other income                                                  4.1           5.4           3.9           4.9
                                                            -----         -----         -----         -----
Earnings before taxes                                        38.3          44.0          22.6          39.9

Income taxes                                                 11.4          12.3          11.3          11.0
                                                            -----         -----         -----         -----

Net earnings                                                 26.9%         31.7%         11.3%         28.9%
                                                            =====         =====         =====         =====
</TABLE>

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                       BMC SOFTWARE, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
                     Management's Discussion and Analysis of
                  Results of Operations and Financial Condition
                                   (continued)

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
REVENUES
                                      Three Months Ended                 Six Months Ended
                                        September 30,                     September 30,
                                    ---------------------              ---------------------
                                        (in thousands)                    (in thousands)
                                       1997        1998      Change      1997         1998          Change
                                    --------     --------    ------    --------     --------        ------

<S>                                 <C>          <C>           <C>     <C>          <C>                <C>
North American license revenues     $ 78,426     $109,000      39%     $158,631     $223,252           41%
International license revenues        38,910       57,500      48%       72,580      103,753           43%
                                    --------     --------              --------     --------
 Total license revenues              117,336      166,500      42%      231,211      327,005           41%

Maintenance revenues                  58,042       69,398      20%      114,195      134,498           18%
                                    --------     --------              --------     --------
 Total revenues                     $175,378     $235,898      34%     $345,406     $461,503           34%
                                    ========     ========              ========     ========
</TABLE>

Product Line Revenues

     The Company's products for the IBM OS/390 mainframe environment accounted
for approximately 76% and 75% of total revenues in the quarters ended 
September 30, 1997 and 1998, and 78% and 75% of total revenues, respectively, in
the six-month periods ended September 30, 1997 and 1998. The database utilities
and administrative tools for IBM's IMS and DB2 database management systems
comprise the largest portion of the Company's mainframe-based and total
revenues. These product lines accounted for 57% of total revenues and 60% of
license revenues in the quarter ended September 30, 1998 and 56% and 57% of
total and license revenues in the six-month period ended September 30, 1998.
Total revenues and license revenues from these product lines grew 37% and 54%,
respectively, in the second quarter of fiscal 1999, and grew 28% and 38% in the
six-month period of fiscal 1999 compared to the respective prior year periods.
The Company's other products for the OS/390 mainframe environment contributed
18% of total revenues and 15% of license revenues for the quarter ended
September 30, 1998 and contributed 19% and 17% of total and license revenues,
respectively, in the six-month period of fiscal 1999. Total revenues and license
revenues for these other mainframe products grew 25% and 46%, respectively, in
the second quarter of fiscal 1999 and grew 30% and 58% in the six-month period
of fiscal 1999.

     The Company's distributed systems product lines comprise the PATROL
application and database management solutions, the BEST/1 performance management
products, the PATROL DB database administration products and the Company's
high-performance database backup and recovery solutions. In total, these product
lines contributed 24% and 25% of total revenues for the quarters ended 
September 30, 1997 and 1998, respectively, and 31% and 25% of license revenues
for the same periods. In the six months ended September 30, 1997 and 1998, these
product lines contributed 22% and 25% of total revenues and 27% and 26% of
license revenues, respectively. Total revenues for these product lines grew 36%
and license revenues grew 18% in the second quarter of fiscal 1999, and 53% and
40%, respectively, for the six-months ended September 30, 1998.

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                      BMC SOFTWARE, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
                     Management's Discussion and Analysis of
                  Results of Operations and Financial Condition

                                  (continued)

License Revenues

     The Company's license revenues include product license fees and
capacity-based license upgrade fees. Product license fees are generated from the
initial licensing of a product and subsequent licenses purchased under the
Company's per copy, central processing unit ("CPU") tier-based licensing
program. Product license fees also include fees associated with the initial
licensing of a product on an aggregate processing capacity measured on a
millions of instructions per second ("MIPS") basis. Capacity-based license
upgrade fees have, to date, been generated almost exclusively by the Company's
mainframe products. These fees are charged when a customer acquires the right to
run an already licensed product on additional processing capacity, as measured
by CPU tier or by MIPS. Customers may purchase this right for current processing
capacity or anticipated future processing capacity.

     The Company's North American operations generated and 67% and 65% of total
license revenues in the quarters ended September 30, 1997 and 1998,
respectively, and 69% and 68% of total license revenues in the six-month periods
ending on such dates. The 39% growth in North American license revenues in the
second quarter of fiscal 1999 over the second quarter of fiscal 1998 was
principally derived from product license fees generated from capacity-based
license upgrade fees. For the six months ended September 30, 1998, the 41%
increase in North American license revenues over the comparable prior year
six-month period is primarily attributable to capacity-based license upgrade
fees and product license fees generated from the company's distributed systems
products. International license revenues represented 33% and 35% of total
license revenues for the quarters ended September 30, 1997 and 1998,
respectively, and 31% and 32% of total license revenues in the six-month periods
ending on such dates. International license revenue growth of 48% from the
second quarter of fiscal 1998 to the comparable quarter of fiscal 1999 was
derived principally from capacity-based license upgrade fees. For the six months
ended September 30, 1998, the 43% increase in international license revenues
over the prior year is primarily attributable to capacity-based license upgrade
fees and, to a lesser extent, product license fees generated from the Company's
distributed systems products.

     Capacity-based upgrade fees include fees for both current and future
additional processing capacity. The sustainability and growth of the Company's
mainframe-based license revenues are dependent upon these capacity-based upgrade
fees, particularly within its largest customer accounts. Most of the Company's
largest customers have entered into enterprise license agreements

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                       BMC SOFTWARE, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
                     Management's Discussion and Analysis of
                  Results of Operations and Financial Condition

                                  (continued)


allowing them to install the Company's products on unspecified CPUs, subject to
a maximum limit on the aggregate power of the CPUs as measured in MIPS. As
companies increase their MIPS within their mainframe environment, they may elect
to increase or decrease the number of underlying CPU's. Regardless of which
approach is utilized, additional fees are due if the MIPS limit is exceeded.
Substantially all of these transactions include upgrade charges associated with
additional processing capacity beyond the customer's current usage level and
some include license fees for additional products The fees associated with
future additional mainframe processing capacity typically comprise from one-half
to substantially all of the license fees included in the enterprise license
transaction. The Company has experienced a strong increase in demand from its
largest customers for the right to run its products on increased current and
anticipated mainframe processing capacity as enterprises invest heavily in their
core OS/390 mainframe information systems. This trend has led to larger single
transactions with higher per MIPS discounts. The Company expects that it will
continue to be dependent upon these capacity-related license revenue components.
With the rapid advancement of distributed systems technology and customers'
needs for more functional and open applications, such as pre-packaged ERP
applications, to replace legacy systems, there can be no assurance that the
demand for mainframe processing capacity or the higher operating effeciencies
afforded by the Company's products will continue at current levels. Should this
trend slow dramatically or reverse, it would adversely impact the Company's
mainframe license revenues and its operating results. See the discussion below
under the heading "Certain Risks and Uncertainties that Could Affect Future
Operating Results."

Maintenance and Support Revenues

     Maintenance and support revenues represent the ratable recognition of fees
to enroll licensed products in the Company's software maintenance, enhancement
and support program. Enrollment entitles customers to product enhancements,
technical support services and ongoing compatibility with third-party operating
systems, database management systems and applications. These fees are generally
charged annually and equal 15% to 20% of the list price of the product at the
time of renewal, less any applicable discounts. Maintenance revenues also
include the ratable recognition of the bundled fees for any first-year
maintenance services covered by the related perpetual license agreement. The
Company continues to invest heavily in product maintenance and support and
believes that maintaining its reputation for superior product support is a key
component of its value pricing model.

     Maintenance revenues have increased over the last three fiscal years as a
result of the continuing growth in the base of installed products and the
processing capacity on which they run. Maintenance fees increase as the
processing capacity on which the products are installed increases; consequently,
the Company receives higher absolute maintenance fees as customers install its
products on additional processing capacity. Due to increased discounting at
higher levels of additional processing capacity, the maintenance fees on a per
MIPS basis are typically reduced in enterprise license agreements. Historically,
the Company has enjoyed high maintenance renewal rates for its mainframe-based
products. Should customers migrate from their mainframe applications or find
alternatives to the Company's products, increased cancellations could adversely
impact the sustainability and growth of

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                       BMC SOFTWARE, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
                     Management's Discussion and Analysis of
                  Results of Operations and Financial Condition

                                  (continued)


the Company's maintenance revenues. To date, the Company has been successful in
extending its traditional maintenance and support pricing model to the
distributed systems market. At this time, there is insufficient historical data
to determine whether customers will continue to accept this pricing model and
renew their maintenance and support contracts at the levels experienced in the
mainframe market.


<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
OPERATING EXPENSES
                                               Three Months Ended                 Six Months Ended
                                                 September 30,                      September 30,
                                             ---------------------              ---------------------               
                                                 (in thousands)                     (in thousands)
                                               1997         1998      Change      1997         1998     Change
                                             --------     --------    ------    --------     --------   ------

<S>                                          <C>          <C>           <C>     <C>          <C>          <C>
Selling and marketing                        $ 49,848     $ 69,684      40%     $100,185     $134,546     34%
Research and development                       24,651       33,825      37%       46,526       67,654     45%
Cost of maintenance services
    and product licenses                       21,884       25,887      18%       42,866       48,792     14%
General and administrative                     13,675       15,389      13%       25,777       31,591     23%
Acquired research and
    development                                 5,201           --      --        65,473       17,304    (74)%
                                             --------     --------              --------     --------
     Total operating expenses                $115,259     $144,785      26%     $280,827     $299,887      7%
                                             ========     ========              ========     ========
</TABLE>

Selling and Marketing

         The Company's selling and marketing expenses include personnel and
related costs, sales commissions and costs associated with advertising, industry
trade shows and sales seminars. Personnel costs were the largest single
contributor to the expense growth in the three months and six months ended
September 30, 1998. This increase was primarily attributable to significant
hiring of additional distributed systems sales representatives and technical
sales support consultants. Sales commissions increased in the second quarter and
first half of fiscal 1999 as a result of the 42% and 41% increases,
respectively, in license revenues. Ongoing commission plan adjustments held
sales commission expense growth below license revenue growth. Marketing costs
have continued to increase to meet the requirements of marketing a greater
number of increasingly complex distributed systems products and of supporting a
growing indirect distribution channel. Other contributors to the increase were
significantly higher levels of travel and the opening of additional field sales
offices.

Research and Development

         Research and development expenses mainly comprise personnel costs
related to software developers and development support personnel, including
software programmers, testing and quality assurance personnel and writers of
technical documentation such as product manuals and installation guides. These
expenses also include computer hardware/software costs and telecommunications

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                     Management's Discussion and Analysis of
                  Results of Operations and Financial Condition
                                   (continued)


expenses necessary to maintain the Company's data processing center. Increases
in the Company's research and development expenses in the second quarter of
fiscal 1999 were the result of increased compensation costs associated with both
software developers and development support personnel, as well as associated
benefits and facilities costs. Research and development costs were reduced by
amounts capitalized in accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting
Standards (SFAS) No. 86. The Company capitalizes its software development costs
when the projects under development reach technological feasibility as defined
by SFAS No. 86. During the second quarter of fiscal 1998 and 1999, the Company
capitalized approximately $9,675,000 and $16,886,000, respectively, of software
development costs. Capitalized software development costs for the six months
ended September 30, 1997 and 1998 were $19,259,000 and $28,054,000,
respectively. The growth in capitalized costs is primarily due to increases in
new distributed systems product development, the porting of distributed systems
products to alternate environments and increased integration development
activity.

Cost of Maintenance Services and Product Licenses

         Cost of maintenance services and product licenses consists of
amortization of purchased and internally developed software, costs associated
with the maintenance, enhancement and support of the Company's products and
royalty fees. Growth in the cost of maintenance services and product licenses
from the second quarter of fiscal 1998 to the second quarter of fiscal 1999 was
primarily attributable to an increase in capitalized software amortization;
while growth during the first half of fiscal 1999 was due to increases in
customer support employees and capitalized software amortization. The Company
amortized $4,601,000 and $9,721,000 in the second quarter of fiscal 1998 and
1999, respectively, of capitalized software development costs pursuant to SFAS
No. 86. In these periods, the Company expensed $2,734,000 and $3,156,000,
respectively, of capitalized software development costs to accelerate the
amortization of certain software products. For the six months ended September
30, 1997 and 1998, the Company amortized $9,294,000 and $13,153,000,
respectively; including accelerated amortization of $5,639,000 and $4,250,000,
respectively. The Company accelerated the amortization of these software
products as they were not expected to generate sufficient future revenues which
would be required for the Company to realize the carrying value of the assets.
The Company expects its cost of maintenance services and product licenses will
continue to increase as the Company capitalizes a higher level of software
development costs and as the Company builds its distributed systems product
support organization, which is less cost-effective than its mainframe support
organization because of the complexity and variability of the environments in
which the products operate. The distributed systems products operate in a high
number of operating environments, including operating systems, DBMSs and ERP
applications and require greater ongoing platform support development activity
relative to the Company's OS/390 mainframe products.

General and Administrative

         General and administrative expenses are comprised primarily of
compensation and personnel costs within executive management, finance and
accounting, product distribution, facilities

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                     Management's Discussion and Analysis of
                  Results of Operations and Financial Condition
                                   (continued)


management and human resources. Other expenses included in general and
administrative expenses are fees paid for legal and accounting services,
consulting projects, insurance and costs of managing the Company's foreign
currency exposure. Growth in general and administrative expenses for both the
three months and six months ended September 30, 1998 over the same periods ended
September 30, 1997 was largely due to increased personnel costs and higher costs
associated with the related infrastructure to support the Company's growth.

Acquired Research and Development and Related Costs

         The Company did not incur acquired in-process research and development
(IPR&D) costs during the quarter ended September 30, 1998. For the quarter ended
September 30, 1997, the Company incurred approximately $5.2 million of acquired
IPR&D. Acquired IPR&D costs for the six months ended September 30, 1997 and 1998
were $65,473,000 and $17,304,000, respectively. These technology charges related
to the acquisition of DataTools and acquisitions of in-process technologies.

         The following table presents information, in thousands, concerning the
purchase price allocations for the acquisitions accounted for under the purchase
method for the six months ended September 30, 1997 and 1998.

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                          Goodwill        Total
  Company Name              Software     Acquired IPR&D   and Other       Price
  ------------              --------     --------------   ---------       -----
<S>                        <C>          <C>               <C>            <C>    
Fiscal 1998:
   DataTools                 $15,000        $54,372        $ 3,628        $73,000
   Sento                       1,800          5,900           --            7,700
   Software Partners           1,700          5,201           --            6,901
                             -------        -------        -------        -------
                             $18,500        $65,473        $ 3,628        $87,601
                             =======        =======        =======        =======
Fiscal 1999:
   Nastel                    $  --          $ 6,000        $  --          $ 6,000
   Envive                      6,400         11,304           --           17,704
                             -------        -------        -------        -------
                             $ 6,400        $17,304        $  --          $23,704
                             =======        =======        =======        =======
</TABLE>


         The Company acquired DataTools in May 1997, for an aggregate purchase
price of $73 million. DataTools owns certain Relational Database Management
Systems (RDBMS) specific back-up products that were sold as stand-alone
products. Its' flagship product is called SQL Backtrack (SQL-BT). DataTools was
in the process of developing numerous products and enhanced versions of
products, including next generation versions of SQL-BT for the Informix platform
(SBI) and the Oracle platform (SBO), as well as first generation products for
the Microsoft SQL (SBM) and Sybase IDR (SBS/I) platforms. The Company allocated
approximately $18.6 million of the


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                     Management's Discussion and Analysis of
                  Results of Operations and Financial Condition
                                   (continued)


purchase price to developed technology, workforce and goodwill. The Company
allocated approximately $54.4 million to acquired IPR&D. The most significant
four specific development projects, which comprised $40.6 million (74%) of the
acquired IPR&D, pertained to the above mentioned projects. The primary remaining
efforts associated with the IPR&D included code completion in several key areas,
such as logical extraction and piecemeal back-up and recovery, large database
support and performance-related functionality. As of the acquisition date, the
expected costs to complete the IPR&D were, on a calendar year basis,
approximately $2.9 million in 1997, $4.7 million in 1998, $2.1 million in 1999,
and $729,000 in 2000. The Company has made significant progress towards the
completion of most of the underlying IPR&D projects. With respect to the
estimated completion costs, the Company is below these forecasted amounts as a
result of decisions to terminate certain of the IPR&D projects (such as the
SBS/I project noted below) and more efficient development efforts than
anticipated. The following summarizes the four primary projects pertaining to
the DataTools IPR&D.

         The Company spent approximately $700,000 through March 31, 1998 on the
SBM product in addition to the approximate $750,000 spent by DataTools prior to
the acquisition. The Company released this product in April 1998.

         The SBO product was released in June 1998 for both the NT and Unix
environments. The IPR&D was successfully completed resulting in new
functionality in several areas, including back-up and recovery scheduling,
remote BU&R, archive log management and a graphical user interface. The Company
spent approximately $1.7 million in completing these technologies subsequent to
the DataTools acquisition.

         BMC abandoned the SBS/I project, on which DataTools had spent
approximately $1 million in research and development. BMC made this decision
based on concerns over market demand and the allocation of Sybase resources to
the core Sybase product. The Company spent less than $500,000 on this technology
prior to deciding to cancel this development project.

         The Company spent approximately $1 million on SBI through March 31,
1998, in addition to the approximate $500,000 spent by DataTools prior to the
transaction. As a result, Version 2.0 of this product was released in April
1998.

         In June 1997, the Company acquired technology from Sento Technical
Innovations, Inc. The Company has since abandoned the technology and expensed
the entire purchase price.

         In July 1997, the Company acquired certain software code from Software
Partners/32, Inc. (Software Partners) for a total purchase price of $6.9
million. The Company allocated $1.7 million of the purchase price to completed
technology and $5.2 million to acquired IPR&D. This code permits file system
back-up and recovery, but was not competitive with the leading products in this
market. While the acquired code contained certain key functionality, it was
incomplete in various aspects. As a result, the Company attempted to complete
this code by, among other things, developing support for dual network hosts,
enhancing the interface with the SQL-BT object back-up stream interface (OBSI),
developing support for SBI and SBM and developing support for code and
integrating it into its PATROL recovery manager product. These efforts were
unsuccessful, and the Company is now attempting to complete the code and
integrate it into a planned distributed systems application recovery management
product scheduled to be released in the latter part of fiscal 2000. The expected
costs to complete the IPR&D (and to integrate the technology into the
application recovery product) are approximately $720,000 in fiscal 1999 and
$1,200,000 in fiscal 2000. The allocation of purchase price to completed
technology reflects the estimated discounted future cash flows associated with
the customers using the existing technology.

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         In the latter part of fiscal 1998, the Company was in the process of
designing a middleware management product to assist customers with optimizing
middleware performance and with handling enterprise environmental changes. In
this regard, in April 1998, the Company acquired a license from Nastel
Technologies, Inc. (Nastel) for certain infrastructure source code for use in
its MQ management product that was under development, but had not yet reached
technological feasibility. Accordingly, the Company allocated the entire $6
million purchase price to IPR&D. BMC completed the acquired IPR&D by creating an
effective installation routine, developing an automated MQ configuration
routine, fortifying the underlying Nastel database and modifying the code to
work in environments with complementary management products. Upon completion of
the IPR&D, the Company completed the initial related product after developing
efficient data collection, user interface and business logic code. The Company
expects to incur approximately $1.6 million in development costs prior to the 
planned release of its middleware management product in the third quarter of 
fiscal 1999.

         In June 1998, BMC entered into a technology agreement with Envive
Corporation (Envive) primarily to strengthen BMC's ERP business management
solutions to provide better diagnostic and correlation ability, service level
management and end-to-end monitoring capability. The Company also secured the
rights to distribute certain products in the SAP management market. The
Company's committed costs associated with the transaction approximated $17.7
million. The Company allocated $6.4 million of the transaction to software
assets, prepaid royalties and interest. The remaining $11.3 million was
allocated to acquired IPR&D which had not reached technological feasibility as
of the date of the transaction. The Company believes the acquired IPR&D is
approximately 45% complete towards development of end-to-end and service level
management functionality across the major ERP platforms, but there is no
assurance that it will be successful in developing such marketable technology.
The Company expects costs to complete the IPR&D will approximate $250,000 in
fiscal 1999, $1,900,000 in fiscal 2000 and $400,000 in fiscal 2001.

         The values assigned to acquired IPR&D in the above mentioned
transactions were generally determined by estimating the costs to develop the
purchased in-process technology into commercially viable products, estimating
the resulting net cash flows from the projects and discounting the net cash
flows to their present value. The revenue projections used to value the acquired
in-process research and development were based on estimates of relevant market
sizes and growth factors, expected trends in technology, and the nature and
expected timing of new product introductions by the Company and its competitors.
Operating expenses were estimated based on historical results and anticipated
profit margins. Due to purchasing power increases and general economies of
scale, estimated operating expenses as a percentage of revenues were, in some
cases, estimated to decrease after the acquisitions.

         The rates utilized to discount the net cash flows to their present
value were based on cost of capital calculations. Due to the nature of the
forecast and risks associated with the projected growth, profitability and the
developmental nature of the projects, discount rates of 16% to 20% were used to
value the acquired IPR&D. These discount rates were commensurate with the
respective stage of development and the uncertainties in the economic estimates
described above. If the acquired IPR&D projects are not successfully completed,
the Company's business, operating results, and financial condition may be
materially adversely affected in future periods. In addition, the value of other
intangible assets acquired may become impaired.

        
OTHER INCOME

         For the second quarter of fiscal 1999, other income was $12,685,000,
reflecting an increase of 76% over $7,217,000 of other income in the same
quarter of fiscal 1998. Other income consists primarily of interest earned on
tax-exempt municipal securities, euro bonds, corporate bonds, mortgage
securities and money market funds. The increase in other income is primarily due
to an increase of approximately 75% in cash and investment securities
from September 30, 1997 to September 30, 1998.

INCOME TAXES

         For the second quarter of fiscal 1999, income tax expense was
$29,083,000 compared to $20,077,000 for the same quarter in fiscal 1998. The
Company's income tax expense represents the federal statutory rate of 35%, plus
certain foreign and state taxes, reduced primarily by the benefit from lower 
income taxes associated with

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                     Management's Discussion and Analysis of
                  Results of Operations and Financial Condition
                                   (continued)


the Company's European operations and the effect of tax exempt interest earned 
from cash investments.

LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES

         The Company has financed its growth through funds generated from
operations. As of September 30, 1998, the Company had cash, cash equivalents and
investment securities of $962,599,000.

         The Company did not repurchase any shares on the open market during the
first quarter of fiscal 1999 as its stock repurchase program was rescinded by
the Board of Directors in connection with the pooling of interests transaction
with BGS Systems, Inc. As a result of the proposed Boole transaction noted
above, the Company does not expect to reinstate its share repurchase program.

         The Company believes that existing cash balances and funds generated
from operations will be sufficient to meet its liquidity requirements for the
foreseeable future.

B.       CERTAIN RISKS AND UNCERTAINTIES THAT COULD AFFECT FUTURE OPERATING
         RESULTS.

         Management's Discussion and Analysis of Results of Operations and
Financial Condition contains certain forward looking statements within the
meaning of Sections 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section
21E of the Securities Act of 1934, as amended. All statements included or
incorporated by reference in this report or made by management of the Company
are forward-looking statements. Examples of forward-looking statements include
statements regarding the Company's future financial results, operating results,
market positions, product successes, business strategies, projected costs,
future products, competitive positions and plans and objectives of management
for future operations. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking
statements by terminology such as "may," "will," "should," "would," "expects,"
"plans," "anticipates," "believes," "estimates," "predicts," "potential," or
"continue," or the negative of such terms or other comparable terminology.
Numerous important factors, risks and uncertainties affect the Company's
operating results and could cause the Company's actual results to differ
materially from the results implied by these or any other forward looking
statements made by, or on behalf, of the Company. There can be no assurance that
future results will meet expectations. These important factors, risks and
uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those described in the following
paragraphs and in the discussion in the Company's March 31, 1998 Annual Report
on Form 10-K under the heading "Business," including, without limitation, the
discussion under the subheading "Competition, System Dependence."

         Volatility of Stock Price. The Company's stock price has been and is
highly volatile. Future revenues, earnings and stock prices may be subject to
wide swings, particularly on a quarterly basis, in response to variations in
operating and financial results, anticipated revenue and/or earnings growth
rates, competitive pressures and other factors. The Company's stock price is
based almost completely on current expectations of sustained future revenue and
earnings growth rates. Any failure to meet anticipated revenue and earnings
levels in a period or any negative change in perceived long-term growth
prospects of the Company would likely have a significant adverse effect on the
Company's stock price. The growth rates of the Company's license revenues, total
revenues, net earnings and earnings per share, excluding one-time charges, have
accelerated over the last seven quarters. The Company may not achieve, in future
periods, these relatively higher rates of growth.

         Risks of Fluctuating Earnings. The timing and amount of the Company's
license revenues are subject to a number of factors that make estimation of
operating results prior to the end of a quarter extremely uncertain. The Company
generally operates with little or no sales backlog and, as a

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                     Management's Discussion and Analysis of
                  Results of Operations and Financial Condition
                                   (continued)


result, license revenues in any quarter are dependent upon contracts entered
into or orders booked and shipped in that quarter. Most of the Company's sales
are closed at the end of each quarter, and there has been and continues to be a
trend toward larger enterprise license transactions, which can have sales cycles
of up to a year or more and require approval by a customer's upper management.
These transactions are typically difficult to manage and predict. Failure to
close an expected individually significant transaction could cause the Company's
revenues and earnings in a period to fall short of expectations.

     Additionally, management generally does not know whether revenues and
earnings will meet expected results until the final days or day of a quarter.
The Company's operating expenses are to a large extent fixed in the short term
so that the Company has very limited ability to adjust its planned expenses if
revenues fail to meet expectations; therefore, if near-term demand for the
Company's products weakens in a given quarter, there would likely be an
immediate, material adverse effect on net revenues and operating results, which
would likely result in a precipitous drop in the Company's stock price.

     Operating Margin Risks. The Company's operating margins, excluding one-time
charges, have ranged between 39% and 40% for fiscal years ended March 31, 1997
and 1998, which is at the high-end of the range for peer companies. Since the
Company's mix of business continues to shift to distributed systems revenues and
since research and development, sales, support and distribution costs for
distributed systems software products are generally higher than for mainframe
products, operating margins will experience more pressure.

     Seasonality of Results. The Company historically realizes greater revenues
and net earnings in the latter half of its fiscal year because the quarter
ending December 31 coincides with the end of its customers' annual budgetary
periods and the quarter ending March 31 coincides with the end of its annual
sales plans and fiscal year. For the same reasons, the Company typically reports
lower or flat revenues in the first two quarters of a fiscal year than in the
last two quarters of the previous fiscal year, resulting in lower operating
margins in the first two quarters. The Company historically generates greater
revenues in the third and fourth quarters of its fiscal year while maintaining
lower rates of expense growth, resulting in higher operating margins during such
quarters.

     The Company's financial projections for fiscal 1999 and analysts'
expectations are based on significantly higher distributed systems products
revenues in the quarters ending December 31, 1998 and March 31, 1999. Although
this was the pattern experienced in fiscal 1998, there can be no assurance that
this pattern will be maintained. Past financial performance is not a reliable
indicator of future performance.

     Risks of International Operations. The Company's future operating results
depend on sustained performance improvement by its international offices. In
this regard, the economies in Europe and the Pacific Rim regions have been
depressed in the past year. The Company's operations and financial results could
be significantly adversely affected by changes in foreign currency exchange
rates, sluggish regional economic conditions and difficulties in staffing and
managing international operations.

     Risks Associated with IBM. The Company derived approximately 72% of its
total revenues in fiscal 1998 from software products for IBM and IBM-compatible
mainframe computers. IBM continues to focus on reducing the overall software
costs associated with the OS/390 mainframe platform. IBM continues, directly and
through third parties, to aggressively enhance its utilities for IMS and DB2 to
provide lower cost alternatives to the products provided by the Company and
other independent software vendors. IBM has significantly increased its level of
activity in the IMS and DB2 high speed utility markets over the last

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                     Management's Discussion and Analysis of
                  Results of Operations and Financial Condition
                                   (continued)


twelve months. If IBM is successful in achieving performance and functional
equivalence with the Company's products at a lower cost, the Company's business
will be materially adversely affected.

     Risk of Reduced Enterprise Licenses. Fees from enterprise license 
transactions remain a fundamental component of the Company's revenues. Such fees
continue to represent an increasingly greater percentage of total mainframe
license revenues and of total deferred revenues.  These revenues are dependent
upon the Company's customers' continuing to perceive an increasing need to use
the Company's existing software products on substantially greater mainframe
processing capacity in future periods. If the Company's customers' processing
capacity growth were to slow and/or if such customers were to perceive
alternatives to relying upon the Company's current mainframe products, the
Company's revenues would be adversely impacted. Additionally, the Company
expects that even in the absence of reductions in customer demand, its deferred
revenue balance may decline over time.

     Risk of Reduced Mainframe Product Pricing.  The charging of upgrade fees
based on running previously licensed software on more powerful computers is
standard among mainframe systems software vendors, including IBM. The pricing of
these processing capacity-based fees is under constant pressure from customers.
IBM is aggressively seeking to reduce the costs of its mainframe systems
software. These pricing pressures within the mainframe systems software markets
could have an adverse effect on the Company's revenues and earnings.

     Rapid Technological Change and Highly Competitive Industry. The Company 
operates in a highly competitive industry characterized by rapid technological
change. The Company's ability to compete effectively and its growth prospects
depend upon many factors, including:

     o    the success of its existing distributed systems products;

     o    the timely introduction of new products into the marketplace;

     o    the success of distributed systems products anticipated to be
          introduced in the future; and

     o    the ability of the Company's products to interoperate and perform well
          with existing and future leading databases and other platforms
          supported by its products.

     The distributed systems and application management markets in which the
Company operates are far more crowded and competitive than its traditional
mainframe systems management markets. Certain of the Company's competitors and
potential competitors have significantly greater financial, technical, sales and
marketing resources than the Company and greater experience in distributed
systems development and sales. The Company has experienced long development
cycles and product delays in the past, particularly with some of its distributed
systems products, and expects to have delays in the future. Delays in new
mainframe or distributed systems product introductions or less-than-anticipated
market acceptance of these new products are possible and would have an adverse
effect on the Company's revenues and earnings. New products or new versions of
existing products may, despite testing, contain undetected errors or bugs that
will delay the introduction or adversely affect commercial acceptance of such
products.

     Uncertainty Relating to Development of Products for Microsoft Platforms.
Microsoft Corporation has significantly increased its focus on developing
operating systems, systems management products and databases that will provide
"business-critical" class functionality. Specifically, Microsoft is aggressively
promoting its BackOffice family of software products, including its Windows NT
operating system and its SQL Server relational database management system, as
lower cost alternatives to the UNIX operating systems, coupled with relational
database management systems from Oracle Corporation, Sybase, Inc., Informix
Corporation and other vendors. Microsoft could significantly lower software
price points in

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                       BMC SOFTWARE, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
                     Management's Discussion and Analysis of
                  Results of Operations and Financial Condition
                                   (continued)


some of the Company's markets, which could place additional pricing pressure on
the Company. The Company has invested and intends to continue to invest in the
development of systems management products for Windows NT and BackOffice
environments, but there are numerous uncertainties associated with the Company's
ability to successfully execute this strategy.

     Risks Associated with Possible Litigation. Litigation seeking to enforce
patents, copyrights and trade secrets is increasing in the software industry.
There can be no assurance that third parties will not assert that their patent
or other proprietary rights are violated by products offered by the Company. Any
such claims, with or without merit, can be time consuming and expensive to
defend and could have an adverse effect on the Company's business, results of
operations, financial position and cash flows.

     Risks Related to Year 2000 Compliance. The Company believes the current
versions of its products are Year 2000 compliant. The Company does not intend to
make all prior versions of its products Year 2000 compliant and has notified its
customers as to which versions will and will not be Year 2000 compliant. The
Company has developed transition plans for customers who expect to be using
noncompliant versions of the Company's products on or after January 1, 2000 and
does not expect to incur significant costs in accommodating them.

     The Company is unaware of any potential material liabilities or operational
difficulties associated with Year 2000 compliance of its own internal
information systems, which are based on Oracle Corporation's enterprise resource
planning system.

     Efforts by customers to address Year 2000 issues may absorb a substantial
part of their information technology budgets in the near term. There is much
speculation that the cost of Year 2000 compliance efforts will significantly
reduce spending on non-Year 2000 products through January 1, 2000. the Company
believes that its core customers are well into their Year 2000 compliance
programs and that this trend has not materially adversely affected demand for
its products to date. The impact of Year 2000 issues on future Company
revenue is difficult to assess, but is a risk to be considered in evaluating the
Company's future growth.

         Management Changes. In fiscal 1998, the Company announced several
executive management and organizational changes involving its Chief Operating
Officer, Senior Vice President, Research and Development, and Senior Vice
President, European Sales. The Company may make other management and
organizational changes in the future. Organizational and management changes are
intended to enhance competitiveness, productivity and execution; however, there
can be no assurance that they will produce the desired results.

         Success of ASA Strategy. When the Company acquired BGS, it also
announced its ASA strategy. The ASA strategy contemplates the development of
solutions suites that will ensure the availability, performance and
recoverability of an ERP, DBMS or operating system. These solution suites will
contain several of the Company's existing products as well as those acquired in
the BGS acquisition. The Company intends to design these solution suites to
provide customers with a common look and feel for all included products. There
can be no assurance that these integration efforts involving separate and
distinct products, including those acquired from BGS, will be successful. Also,
given the recent announcement of this strategy, the Company cannot predict its
acceptance by customers.

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                     Management's Discussion and Analysis of
                  Results of Operations and Financial Condition
                                   (continued)


         Recent Acquisitions. With the acquisition of DataTools in May 1997 and
BGS in March 1998, the Company has initiated efforts to integrate the disparate
cultures, employees, systems and products. In both acquisitions, retention of
key employees is critical to ensure the continued advancement, development,
support, sales and marketing efforts pertaining to the acquired products. The
Company has implemented retention programs to keep many of the key technical,
sales and marketing employees. The Company has also elected to retain the
principal offices of both DataTools and BGS and has reorganized the management
structure at both of these locations. The Company has not historically managed
significant, fully staffed business units at locations different from the
Company's headquarters. As a result, the Company may experience additional
difficulties in integrating its management policies and practices into
DataTool's and BGS's operations. The Company has lost key employees that were
acquired in these acquisitions, especially at DataTools. The loss of the key
employees to date has not been detrimental to the Company's product integration
plans, although further losses could cause the product integrations to be
significantly delayed. Integration of DataTools SQL-BackTrack products is
critical to the completion of the Company's backup, recovery, and restoration
strategy. As noted above, integration of BGS's BEST/1 products with PATROL is
also critically important to the ASA Strategy. Successful integration of these
complex software products having different origins is difficult to predict and
achieve. There can be no assurance that these product integrations will meet
expectations or be successful.

         Pending Acquisition. On November 2, 1998, the Company announced its
intentions to acquire Boole & Babbage, Inc. (Boole) through an exchange of
common stock and stock options using an exchange rate of .675 shares of the
Company Software common stock for each share of Boole common stock. The
acquisition is subject to approval by the Boole stockholders and to review by
certain governmental and regulatory bodies. Like the DataTools and BGS
acquisitions, the Company faces significant technical and organizational
challenges in integrating Boole operations with those of the Company. The
Company has plans to implement retention programs to keep many of the key
technical, sales and marketing employees. Integration of the Boole products and
organizational structure will be difficult, and there can be no assurance that
the integration efforts will be successful. For discussion of additional risks
related to the proposed merger, see the Company's Registration Statement on Form
S-4 filed with the SEC on November 13, 1998.

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                       BMC SOFTWARE, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
                           PART II - OTHER INFORMATION


Item 1.           Legal Proceedings.

                  Platinum technology, inc. ("Platinum") filed suit against the 
Company and Boole on November 13, 1998 in the Circuit Court of the Eighteenth 
Judicial Circuit Chancery Division, DuPage County, Wheaton, Illinois, alleging 
breach of, and tortious interference with, a standstill and exclusive 
negotiation agreement between Boole and Platinum. As its remedy, Platinum is 
seeking an injunction voiding the merger agreement between the Company and 
Boole and enforcement of an exclusive 120-day period for negotiations with 
Boole. The Company is investigating this matter.


Item 6.           Exhibits and Reports on Form 8-K


                  (a)  Exhibits.

                       None


                  (b)  Reports on Form 8-K.

                       The Company filed a Form 8-K on November 6, 1998 
                  relating to its expected acquisition of Boole and 
                  Babbage, Inc.




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                                   SIGNATURES


         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned thereunto duly authorized.


                                       BMC SOFTWARE, INC.


Date:      February 22, 1999               By: /s/ Max P. Watson Jr.
         ----------------------            -------------------------------
                                           Max P. Watson Jr.
                                           Chairman of the Board, President and
                                           Chief Executive Officer



Date:      February 22, 1999               By: /s/ William M. Austin
         ----------------------            -------------------------------
                                           William M. Austin
                                           Senior Vice President and
                                           Chief Financial Officer



Date:      February 22, 1999               By: /s/ Kevin M. Klausmeyer
         ----------------------            -------------------------------
                                           Kevin M. Klausmeyer
                                           Chief Accounting Officer

                                       23
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                               INDEX TO EXHIBITS
 
EXHIBIT
NUMBER                        DESCRIPTION
- ------                        -----------

  27                Financial Data Schedule

<TABLE> <S> <C>

<ARTICLE> 5
<LEGEND>
THIS SCHEDULE CONTAINS SUMMARY FINANCIAL INFORMATION EXTRACTED FROM THE
COMPANY'S UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE SIX
MONTHS ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 1998 AND IS QUALIFIED IN ITS ENTIRETY BY REFERENCE TO
SUCH FINANCIAL STATEMENTS INCLUDED IN THE COMPANY'S FORM 10-Q FOR THE PERIOD
ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1998.
</LEGEND>
<MULTIPLIER> 1,000
       
<S>                             <C>
<PERIOD-TYPE>                   6-MOS
<FISCAL-YEAR-END>                          MAR-31-1999
<PERIOD-START>                             APR-01-1998
<PERIOD-END>                               SEP-30-1998
<CASH>                                         100,982
<SECURITIES>                                   861,617
<RECEIVABLES>                                  235,413
<ALLOWANCES>                                     8,487
<INVENTORY>                                          0
<CURRENT-ASSETS>                               403,758
<PP&E>                                         285,216
<DEPRECIATION>                                  87,404
<TOTAL-ASSETS>                               1,558,195
<CURRENT-LIABILITIES>                          411,966
<BONDS>                                              0
                                0
                                          0
<COMMON>                                         2,173
<OTHER-SE>                                     943,083
<TOTAL-LIABILITY-AND-EQUITY>                 1,558,195
<SALES>                                        327,005
<TOTAL-REVENUES>                               461,503
<CGS>                                           48,792
<TOTAL-COSTS>                                  299,887
<OTHER-EXPENSES>                                     0
<LOSS-PROVISION>                                     0
<INTEREST-EXPENSE>                                   0
<INCOME-PRETAX>                                184,245
<INCOME-TAX>                                    50,884
<INCOME-CONTINUING>                            133,361
<DISCONTINUED>                                       0
<EXTRAORDINARY>                                      0
<CHANGES>                                            0
<NET-INCOME>                                   133,361
<EPS-PRIMARY>                                     0.62
<EPS-DILUTED>                                     0.58
        
 

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