Former Long-Term Lotus Executive Joins Pure Atria Management Team

    SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Pure Atria(R) (Nasdaq: PASW)
today announced that Dave Barrett has joined Pure Atria as worldwide vice
president of sales and customer services.  Barrett joins Pure Atria with
19 years of sales and marketing management experience.  Formerly, he was with
Lotus Development Corporation where he directed a field sales and service team
of over 400 professionals that was acknowledged as one of the best in the
software industry.
    "I'm proud to have Dave directly leading nearly half our company," said
Reed Hastings, president and CEO of Pure Atria.  "Dave's developed a wide
range of sales and marketing management expertise that is directly relevant to
Pure Atria.  His leadership skills, his consistent track record, along with
his deep understanding of what it takes to succeed in software, make him
uniquely qualified to take Pure Atria's worldwide sales and services team to
the next level.  With Dave's experience, Pure Atria can sustain our stellar
customer satisfaction level as we grow."
    Barrett spent half of his career with Lotus Development Corporation.  Most
recently with Lotus, Barrett was vice president of field sales and services
and was responsible for over $500 million in customer revenues across North
America as well as key accounts globally.  While at Lotus, Barrett also held
various other executive positions.  He served as general manager of Lotus'
government sales and marketing organization, directed Lotus' North American
strategic sales and operations organization, served as marketing director, and
directed Lotus' major and global accounts sales and service teams from their
inceptions.
    Prior to Lotus, Barrett headed worldwide sales at Graphics Communications
Inc., a software development firm that was eventually purchased by Lotus, and
held several field sales management positions at Harris/Lanier Corporation.
Most recently, he served as vice president of sales, marketing and service at
Nets Inc., an Internet-based business-to-business electronic commerce services
company.  Barrett received a bachelors of science degree in marketing
management from the University of Rhode Island.
    Pure Atria is a worldwide leader in the Automated Software Quality (ASQ)
market, which includes diagnostic products, testing products and
enterprise-wide products for managing software assets and engineering
resources.  Pure Atria offers an integrated set of premier ASQ products
designed to enable Windows and UNIX development teams to address the
challenges of complex software development. Pure Atria employs over 600 people

and has more than 4,000 corporate customers worldwide.  Additional information
on the company and ASQ is available on the Internet at http://www.pureatria.com.
    NOTE:  The forward looking statements contained in this news release,
which reflect management's best judgment based on factors currently known,
involve risks and uncertainties as detailed from time to time in the Company's
SEC reports, including the Report on form 10-K for the year ended December 31,
1995.  Actual results may vary materially.
    NOTE:  Pure Atria and the Pure Atria logo are either registered trademarks
or trademarks of Pure Atria Corporation in the United States and/or other
countries.  More information on Pure Atria is available on the Internet at:
http://www.pureatria.com or through our fax-on-demand service at
800-758-5804 (account number: 113375).  **Fax-on-demand is only available
inside the U.S.

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