Altiris Continues Success in the Academic IT Market.

Business Editors & High-Tech Writers

SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 30, 2002

Specialized Academic Pricing and Packaging Allows Administrators and

Teachers to Efficiently Manage IT Assets in Districts, Schools and

Computer Labs

Altiris(R) Inc. (Nasdaq:ATRS), a leader in systems management solutions that reduce the total cost of owning information technology, today announced successful implementation of Altiris IT management software at Aldine School District, Brighton School and East Rock Magnet School.

"Altiris education products such as the Education Mgmt Suite(TM), Deployment Solution(TM) and Altiris Vision(TM) allow our customers to efficiently manage their hardware and software assets," said Tyler Smith, Altiris vice president, marketing. "We understand that IT management resources are scarce in the education market. Our specialized pricing and packaging addresses tight academic budgets. Many of our customers, including the University of Arkansas and California State University, report savings of time and money on IT projects. In addition, schools avoid hiring out for IT services or increasing headcount to perform tasks that can be managed by Altiris software."

District Level -- Aldine School District, Aldine, Texas -- Altiris Education Mgmt Suite

Nathan Boughton, Aldine School District director of technology development, said, "With 7,000 employees and 55,000 students, we are the largest state recognized school district in Texas. Each Aldine employee knows that our district's mission statement is to `Produce the Nation's Best' and for us this means our students must have continuous access to their computers. We combat computer downtime with Altiris Education Mgmt Suite since we believe downtime limits student achievement and our ability to be effective educators."

"With approximately one network manager to every 4,000 PCs we are spread extremely thin. Before Altiris, we were spending a good deal of our day running from school to school repairing computers. Our district is 110 square miles and it normally would take us 45 minutes to drive to a school, 10 minutes to fix the problem and 45 minutes to drive back. Altiris' Web-based software provides a way for us to remotely support our technology from a central location. We can now remote control a problem computer while we have the user on the phone and quickly fix the issue right the first time.

"In addition to support functions we needed a more efficient process to inventory our technology assets and a more effective way to roll out 2,000-3,000 new computers every year. Altiris Education Mgmt Suite provides automated inventory capabilities as well as centrally managed deployment and migration capabilities.

"Under the leadership of Mardee Barnett, our executive director of technology services, Aldine ISD will be managing about 15,000 computers with Altiris software. Already we have seen our efficiency and effectiveness increase and expect it to skyrocket when our Altiris implementation is complete. Most important, however, we are building a level of confidence and trust with our users and helping our teachers to `Produce the Nations Best!'"

School level -- Brighton School, Lynnwood, Wash. -- Altiris Deployment Solution

Russ Noble, Brighton School elementary teacher and director of technology, said, "I have been an elementary teacher for 19 years. In addition to teaching, I also administrate and maintain 105 networked computers and two servers. Manual maintenance of our technology can be draining and takes away time that I could otherwise use to work with the kids.

"I came across Altiris Deployment Solution a few years ago while attending the Northwest Conference for Computers in Education in Portland, Ore. I left the conference so pumped by what I saw that I knew I had to have it. Since then I have purchased 101 nodes for our network.

"With Deployment Solution I have been able to create computer images and software configuration RIPS that I simply drag and drop onto connected machines. This alone has saved me hours of time every week in reformatting and reloading Windows. It is easy enough to use that I have been training some of my older students on how to use it."

Classroom level -- East Rock Magnet School, New Haven, Conn. -- Altiris Vision

Domenic Grignano, East Rock Magnet School technology facilitator and systems engineer, said, "We use Altiris Vision on the 18 computers in our library media center to present multimedia and Web-based presentations. We previously used a LCD projector and a screen but it took a long time to set up and did not keep the kids' attention.

"Vision gives teachers control over the computer classroom by allowing them to broadcast presentations from the administrator computer to the rest of the computers in our library media center. The kids have more opportunities to learn, get a better view of presentations and are captivated by technology that allows teachers to remote control any of the computers in the lab."

Additionally, East Rock Magnet School was the first K-12 environment to use Altiris products. Grignano has successfully cloned the school's desktop computers for the last seven years using a component of Deployment Solution.

Licensing and availability

Education Mgmt Suite, Deployment Solution and Altiris Vision are now available for purchase through individual node, site and district licensing options. For more information call 801/226-8500 or visit www.altiris.com.

About Altiris

Altiris Inc. offers a full line of Web-enabled solutions that empower organizations to easily manage desktops, notebooks, handhelds and servers throughout the IT lifecycle. Altiris provides fully integrated, complete systems management solutions including deployment and migration, software operations management, inventory and asset management, and help desk management. Altiris' core technologies greatly reduce the cost and complexity of owning IT resources. For more information, visit www.altiris.com.

Note on Forward-Looking Statements 

This press release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, including the statement from the Aldine School District representative regarding his expectations of product performance upon final implementation. These forward-looking statements involve certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ, including, but not limited to, difficulties and delays in product development, implementation and support; errors in our products; and such other risks as identified in our quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2002, and from time to time in other reports filed by Altiris with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Altiris is a registered trademark of Altiris Inc. Education Mgmt Suite, Deployment Solution and Altiris Vision are a trademarks of Altiris Inc. The other company names or products mentioned are or may be trademarks of their respective owners.