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                     [Cary Ware Freidenrich LLP LETTERHEAD]


                                                                       EXHIBIT 5

                                 March 31, 1998

Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C.  20549

Ladies and Gentlemen:

As legal counsel for Enlighten Software Solutions, Inc., a California
corporation (the "Company"), we are rendering this opinion in connection with
the registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, of up to 500,000
shares of the Common Stock, no par value, of the Company which may be issued
pursuant to the exercise of options granted under the Enlighten Software
Solutions, Inc. Amended and Restated 1992 Stock Option Plan (the "Plan"),
formerly the Software Professionals, Inc. First Amended and Restated 1992 Stock
Option Plan and 134,642 shares of Common Stock, no par value, of the Company
which may be issued pursuant to the exercise of individual stock options (the
"Individual Options").

We have examined all instruments, documents and records which we deemed relevant
and necessary for the basis of our opinion hereinafter expressed. In such
examination, we have assumed the genuineness of all signatures and the
authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals and the conformity to
the originals of all documents submitted to us as copies. We are admitted to
practice only in the State of California and we express no opinion concerning
any law other than the law of the State of California and the federal law of the
United States.

Based on such examination, we are of the opinion that the 634,642 shares of
Common Stock which may be issued upon exercise of options granted under the Plan
and the Individual Options are duly authorized shares of the Company's Common
Stock, and, when issued against receipt of the consideration therefor in
accordance with the provisions of the Plan and the Individual Options, as
applicable, will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable. We hereby
consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration
Statement referred to above and the use of our name wherever it appears in said
Registration Statement.

                                            Respectfully submitted,

                                          /s/ GRAY CARY WARE & FREIDENRICH, LLP