Altiris Recognized as a 'Leader' in the IT Asset Management Market by Independent Research Firm; Altiris Receives Positive Marks for a 'Full-Featured Solution'.

SALT LAKE CITY -- Altiris Inc. (Nasdaq: ATRS), a pioneer of service-oriented management solutions, is positioned as a "leader" in The Forrester Wave: IT Asset Management, Q3 2006 report. Forrester writes, "Altiris is a fast-growing player in the IT asset management market, offering a full-featured solution around the company's service management and life-cycle tools."

Peter O'Neill, Forrester principal analyst, writes, "Overall, the solution is strong, with Altiris staking its position as one of the leading five IT asset management vendors. The system has solid, all-round functionality, with exceptional usability and inventory management... The packaging of asset management with other functions like service desk makes this offering something of a stealth product in the ITAM market."

The report describes the Altiris solution, where "asset information is natively modeled within a configuration management database (CMDB)... and includes contractual information, leases, warranties, SLAs and SLOs."

Steve Morton, Altiris VP of product management and marketing, said, "Effective IT service management is not possible without an accurate, in-depth understanding of the IT environment. Automated IT asset management creates a foundation for sophisticated IT service. Altiris service-oriented management solutions deliver predictable, repeatable and invisible IT service that supports essential business objectives."

Altiris(R) Service & Asset Management Suite(TM) software helps companies reduce costs, increase IT resource productivity and better utilize existing investments. Altiris solutions help IT organizations elevate the role of IT within the business as a strategic partner focused on supporting corporate initiatives. By actively managing the entire asset lifecycle, Altiris solutions help eliminate unnecessary software and hardware costs, proactively manage vendor contracts and align service resources with IT infrastructure library (ITIL) best practices.

Altiris solutions are built on the latest Web and database technologies making them fast, flexible and easy to implement and manage.

Licensing and availability

For more information or to purchase Altiris Service & Asset Management Suite software and other Altiris solutions, please contact a local Altiris sales representative by visiting www.altiris.com/sales. For more information about the Forrester Wave report, please visit www.forrester.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.

Note on Forward-Looking Statements 

This press release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, including but not limited to, the statement regarding Altiris being a fast-growing IT asset management vendor. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results to differ, including, but not limited to, changes in the demand for our products; our inaccurate assessment of market demand or IT technology trends; our inability to compete effectively in an increasingly competitive market; changes in economic conditions generally or technology spending in particular; and such other risks as identified in our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended March 31, 2006, 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. in the United States and in other countries. Service & Asset Management Suite is a trademark of Altiris Inc. The other company names or products mentioned are or may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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(1) Forrester Research Inc., "Altiris Leads The Middle Ground With A Stealth IT Asset Management Product," Peter O'Neill, Reedwan Iqbal, Norbert Kriebel and Thomas Mendel, Aug. 4, 2006.