=============================================================================== UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 SCHEDULE 14A INFORMATION PROXY STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 14(a) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 (AMENDMENT NO. __) Filed by the Registrant [ ] Filed by a Party other than the Registrant |X| Check the appropriate box: [ ] Preliminary Proxy Statement [ ] Confidential, For Use of the Commission Only (as permitted by Rule 14a-6(e)(2)) [ ] Definitive Proxy Statement [ ] Definitive Additional Materials |X| Soliciting Material Pursuant to Rule 14a-12 COMPUTER ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL, INC. (Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter) RANGER GOVERNANCE, LTD. (Name of Person(s) Filing Proxy Statement, if other than the Registrant) Payment of Filing Fee (Check the appropriate box): |X| No fee required. [ ] Fee computed on table below per Exchange Act Rules 14a-6(i)(1) and 0-11. (1) Title of each class of securities to which transaction applies: (2) Aggregate number of securities to which transaction applies: (3) Per unit price or other underlying value of transaction computed pursuant to Exchange Act Rule 0-11 (set forth the amount on which the filing fee is calculated and state how it was determined): (4) Proposed maximum aggregate value of transaction: (5) Total fee paid: [ ] Fee paid previously with preliminary materials. [ ] Check box if any part of the fee is offset as provided by Exchange Act Rule 0-11(a)(2) and identify the filing for which the offsetting fee was paid previously. Identify the previous filing by registration statement number, or the Form or Schedule and the date of its filing. (1) Amount Previously Paid: (2) Form, Schedule or Registration Statement No.: (3) Filing Party: (4) Date Filed: Employment History or Present Principal Occupation and Five-Year Employment History ----------------------------- Stephen R. Perkins - 58 Mr. Perkins has been a Managing Director of Ranger since June 2001 Ranger Governance, Ltd. and was appointed President of Ranger and President of Ranger 300 Crescent Court Governance in June 2002. He also has been the Chief Executive Suite 1000 Officer of Transfinity Corp. since November 2001 and has done Dallas, TX 75201 consulting work since March 2001. Until March 2001, Mr. Perkins was Executive Vice President and Communications Software Group [photo] President of Sterling Commerce Inc., an industry leader in business-to-business e-commerce and a unit of SBC Communications. During his seven-year tenure at Sterling Commerce, he grew a division from revenues of $35 million and 150 domestic employees to one with revenues of $200 million and 1,000 employees worldwide and transitioned that division through a spin-off from Sterling Software and a subsequent acquisition. He also spent 16 years at University Computing Company, where he was part of a team that created the first system software package ever commercially sold to the information technology industry. Ranger Governance, Ltd. ("Ranger") and certain other persons may be deemed participants in the solicitation of proxies from the stockholders of Computer Associates International, Inc. ("Computer Associates") in connection with Computer Associates' 2002 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. Information concerning such participants is available in Ranger's preliminary proxy statement on Schedule 14A (the "Preliminary Proxy Statement") filed by Ranger with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on June 27, 2002. STOCKHOLDERS OF COMPUTER ASSOCIATES ARE ADVISED TO READ RANGER'S DEFINITIVE PROXY STATEMENT (THE "DEFINITIVE PROXY STATEMENT") IN CONNECTION WITH RANGER'S SOLICITATION OF PROXIES FROM COMPUTER ASSOCIATES STOCKHOLDERS WHEN IT BECOMES AVAILABLE, BECAUSE IT WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION. Stockholders of Computer Associates and other interested parties may obtain, free of charge, copies of the Preliminary Proxy Statement and the Definitive Proxy Statement (when available), and any other documents filed by Ranger with the SEC, at the SEC's Internet website at www.sec.gov. The Preliminary Proxy Statement and the Definitive Proxy Statement (when available) and these other documents may also be obtained free of charge by contacting Morrow & Co., Inc., the firm assisting Ranger in the solicitation of proxies, toll-free at 1-800-607-0088.