Altiris(R) Solutions Honored in Redmond Magazine's 2006 Readers' Choice Awards; Altiris Achieves Three Readers' Choice Awards, One ISV Winner Acknowledgement and Six Preferred Product Awards.

SALT LAKE CITY -- Altiris Inc. (Nasdaq: ATRS), a pioneer of service-oriented management solutions, today announced that the company has received a total of 10 acknowledgements in Redmond Magazine's 2006 Readers' Choice Awards. Altiris received overall wins for 'Best Asset Management / Resource Inventory Product,' 'Best Remote Troubleshooting Solution' and 'Server Migration.' In addition, Altiris received an 'ISV (Independent Software Vendor) Winner' recognition as well as 'Preferred Product' acknowledgement for six additional categories including 'Patch Management,' 'Software Packaging' and 'Drive Imaging,' among others.

The 2006 awards are based on the responses of 2,000 readers who list their favorite products in 45 categories. Year after year, Altiris receives Redmond Magazine reader recognition and validation in numerous product categories.

Lafe Low, Redmond Magazine executive editor, said, "In this era of Sarbanes-Oxley, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and outside auditing, asset management has never been more important. Altiris is the runaway winner in this category." Altiris(R) asset management solutions took the award for best asset management / resource inventory product with almost half of the total vote.

"We are especially pleased to be recognized by Redmond Magazine's readers because they represent the opinions of our customers and partners," said Carine Clark, Altiris VP of marketing. "It is a tremendous honor to have received not one but a total of 10 acknowledgements in Redmond Magazine's Readers' Choice program this year."

Readers can view the entire results of the 2006 Readers' Choice Awards program at http://redmondmag.com/features/article.asp?editorialsid=586, or in Redmond Magazine's May issue. The magazine plans to profile all winning products in its July issue.

Redmond Magazine provides cutting-edge product, business and how-to information to network professionals, IT managers and IT directors focusing on the Microsoft Windows platform. The monthly publication reaches 119,000 qualified subscribers. For more information, visit http://redmondmag.com.

About Altiris

Altiris Inc. is a leading provider of service-oriented management software that enables IT organizations to easily manage, secure and service heterogeneous IT assets. Flexible solutions from Altiris help IT align services to drive business objectives, deliver audit-ready security, automate tasks and reduce the cost and complexity of management. For more information, visit www.altiris.com.

Altiris is a registered trademark of Altiris Inc. in the United States and in other countries. The other company names or products mentioned are or may be trademarks of their respective owners.