With CMF Version 5.2, LSVi Extends its Lead as the Best Desktop Management Solution for Very Large Networks.

Business Editors/Technology Writers

SAN RAMON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 23, 2001

Customers Like U.S. Bank are Eager to Use CMF's Newest Features to

Save Time, Ensure Continuous Availability, and Provide Their Users

With Greater Flexibility

LSVi today announced the immediate availability of version 5.2 of Change Management Facility (CMF), LSVi's leading-edge product for enterprise desktop change and configuration management. CMF provides the industry's most cost-effective and easy-to-use approach to managing software changes, while delivering optimal reliability and scalability for large, dispersed networks. LSVi expanded availability and self-service features while adding new distribution and configuration alternatives, new security and integrity features for Windows NT/2000, and performance enhancements for this newest release of their desktop management tool.

Highlights of the new features in Version 5.2 of CMF include:

-- Fully automated self-healing - Self-healing software agents keep
electronically installed software up-to-date and repair corrupted
installations. Agents proactively check and repair software at the profile,
package, and file levels, ensuring availability and reducing support costs.

-- Active Directory Services support - Support for storage and use of server
mappings is the basis for this initial phase of support for Microsoft's Active
Directory Services (ADS) or other vendors' directory services based on
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).

-- New Internet distribution alternatives - Expanded support of web protocols
and packages gives users more flexibility. CMF 5.2 supports common web server
packages (such as Internet Information Services (IIS)) and installation using
TCP/IP address, IP Host Name, DNS Name or proxy server.

-- User-initiated rollback - This feature allows users to repair their desktops
themselves without involving the central site, which frees up the support group
and ensures maximum availability of workstations.

"Amid the backlash against platform frameworks, companies are clamoring for products that deliver on what they promise: reliability, efficiency, and a quick time-to-benefit," said Richard Ptak, senior vice president of security and systems management at the Hurwitz Group. "Best-of-breed tools, like LSVi's CMF, are doing a very effective job addressing the needs of today's corporate enterprise."

"This new release reflects our continued commitment to providing customers with the best tool and methodology available for desktop management. Our unique process-based approach allows our customers to be successful in record time," said Stan Pomerantz, president and CEO of LSVi. "And most importantly, with a lower total cost per node than any other desktop change management vendor."

Customers like U.S. Bank, that rollout monthly updates to over 16,000 workstations, are eager to take advantage of the new release. "CMF helps us integrate and merge new businesses and technology at a very rapid pace," said Valerie Couch, manager of software distribution at U.S. Bank. "We're looking forward to using the new features in CMF 5.2, such as automated self-healing, to provide even better service to our desktop users."

About CMF

CMF provides the most comprehensive solution to the business problem of desktop and server change management. Excelling in rapid and reliable distribution of changes to systems and application software, CMF is the ideal product for companies with thousands or tens of thousands of desktops to deploy and maintain. CMF is based on LSVi's unique methodology, QuickSteps to Success(TM), a set of tried-and-true processes, which reduce complexity and ensure repeatable success for customers. CMF is available now on the following platforms: MVS or NT for the central server; NT Server, Novell Netware, or OS/2 Warp Server for fan-out servers; and DOS, OS/2 Warp, Windows 3.1, 95, 98, 2000 and NT clients.

About LSVi, Inc.

LSVi develops advanced IT systems management software that enables Fortune 1000 companies to keep up with the rapid pace of change. LSVi's suite of software products focuses on key network and desktop management areas including inventory tracking, configuration management, change control, software deployment, and solution-oriented offerings including Windows 2000 migration. LSVi's ability to execute flexible and dynamic solutions around a common management process allows companies to better manage resources, save time and money.

Privately held, with blue-chip investor, Charterhouse Group International, Inc., LSVi is headquartered in San Ramon, California. For more information, visit the Company's Web site at www.lsvi.com or call 1-800-820-8188.