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New Wise Package Studio Helps Minimize Patch Management Hazards and Focuses Testing Efforts to Achieve Error-Free Patch Rollouts ORLANDO, Fla., ManageFusion, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Altiris, Inc. (NASDAQ:ATRS), a pioneer of IT lifecycle management solutions that reduce the total cost of owning IT resources, today announced a significant new release of Wise Package Studio(R) that includes unique patch risk and impact assessment capabilities to help ensure error-free patch rollouts. Wise Package Studio 6.0 has pioneered advanced software management that streamlines patch assessment and deployment for secure and stable software environments. Baptist Health South Florida is the largest not-for-profit health care organization in the region and consists of six hospitals, several outpatient medical plazas and more than 11,000 employees. Erik McLaughlin, corporate IT manager, and his team of engineers are tasked with managing more than 5000 workstations, 400 servers and 700 applications. McLaughlin said, "In our environment a downed workstation can affect the quality of patient care we provide. With hundreds of applications, we use Wise Package Studio to create a more stable computing environment and a better end user experience. "New Wise Package Studio 6.0 capabilities will help us speed application development cycles while helping ensure conflict-free deployments. As applications become bigger and more complex, we are able to better manage them with a new lighter development client and server-side processing. Patch risk and impact assessments are also significant pain points. Wise Package Studio will now be able to help us determine if our newly deployed applications and patches will have any negative impact on our target population." Steve Morton, Altiris VP of product management and marketing, said, "Altiris(R) software management solutions help reduce costs associated with application and patch deployment, improve system supportability by reducing the complexity of software environments, and deliver business continuity. Wise Package Studio creates a solid software foundation and a single source of truth for software lifecycle management. Version 6.0 further supports software management best practices for patch roll outs that deliver intended security while preserving software stability." According to Gartner research, "Automatically triggered security patching remains wishful thinking at an enterprise level. The core problem is not in the number of required patches, which indeed can be handled more efficiently through automation. Testing before deployment is the major roadblock to full automation."* Patching an operating system or application may overwrite existing files and cause applications to break. Wise Package Studio identifies software that may be adversely affected by the introduction of a new patch into an environment. In addition, a software patch may fail to remediate all of the issues it was intended to address. Wise Package Studio risk assessment identifies cases in which a patch installation will miss instances of files that need to be upgraded. Wise Package Studio 6.0 offers a new Web-based installation capture tool that saves time and effort by eliminating the need to pre-install software packaging software. Wise Package Studio also now includes: * a revision control system that help prevent users from making conflicting changes to packages, identifies the changes that have been made to packages, and allows users to rollback to a prior version of a package * support for server-side processing and task management that significantly improves performance and reduces network traffic * enhanced conflict management capabilities that are more intelligent in detecting application conflicts Licensing and availability Wise Package Studio will be available in Q4 2005 and is offered at an MSRP of $4599 per seat with volume discounts available. Wise Package Studio is also available as a component of Altiris Client Management Suite(TM). For more information, or to contact your local Altiris sales representative, please visit http://www.altiris.com/. About Altiris Altiris, Inc. is a pioneer of IT lifecycle management software that allows IT organizations to easily manage, secure and service desktops, notebooks, thin clients, handhelds, industry-standard servers, and heterogeneous software including Windows, Linux and UNIX. Altiris automates and simplifies IT projects throughout the life of an asset to reduce the cost and complexity of management. Altiris client and mobile, server, security and IT asset management solutions natively integrate via a common Web-based console and repository. For more information, visit http://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 statements regarding the future availability of the Wise Package Studio product. These forward-looking statements involve certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ, including but not limited to, risks associated with delays or difficulties in bringing this product to market, and such other risks as identified in our quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2005, 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 U.S. and in other countries. Wise Package Studio is a registered trademark of Wise Solutions, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Altiris, Inc. Client Management Suite is a trademark of Altiris, Inc. The other company names or products mentioned are or may be trademarks of their respective owners. * Gartner, Inc., "Management Update: Automated Security Patching Remains Elusive," Tom Scholtz, F. Christian Byrnes, Aug. 24, 2005. DATASOURCE: Altiris Inc. CONTACT: Rhett Glauser of Altiris Inc., +1-801-805-1131, ; or Tim Rush of Snapp Norris Group, +1-801-208-1100, , for Altiris Inc. Web site: http://www.altiris.com/

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