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News Release ON Technology Helps Companies Combat Nimda Attacks & Perform Disaster Recovery Automatically Downloadable Software Automatically Deploys and Installs Nimda Patches from Centralized Servers, Delivering Substantial Time and Cost Savings vs. Sneakernet Waltham, MA, October 9, 2001 - ON Technology Corporation (Nasdaq:ONTC), a leading provider of remote software and content management solutions, today announced a series of free downloadable packages allowing ON Command CCM™ users to combat Nimda attacks without physically sending IT technicians to every PC and Web server in their environments. Nimda is an aggressive and fast-spreading worm/virus that attacks individual PCs as well as Microsoft Web servers. According to security industry experts, Nimda could ultimately infect several million machines, with clean-up costs surpassing $500 million. The new ON packages allow IT administrators to remotely install Microsoft security patches on multiple PCs and Web servers simultaneously over the network, from centralized ON management servers, without requiring any end-user interaction. Users can also leverage ON Command CCM to remotely perform disaster recovery on infected machines and protect their IT infrastructures from attacks on an ongoing basis. According to industry research and advisory firm Gartner Inc, the cost of using sneakernet to manually update an application is $150 per desktop for a LAN-connected user and $225 per desktop for mobile or remote users. For example, for an Internet Explorer (IE) upgrade alone, in a typical 5,000-PC organization with an 80/20 mixture of LAN-connected and mobile/remote desktops, ON Command CCM delivers a substantial cost savings of $825,000 by eliminating the need for a desktop visit to all end-user PCs. Additional cost savings are also realized from the deployment of Nimda patches to Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) Web servers, from automatically rebuilding infected machines, and from ongoing OS and application updates such as anti-virus updates and migrations to Windows XP and Office XP.
"Security has come to the forefront in the mind-set of businesses and government organizations, and we're pleased to be doing our part to help customers react more rapidly to these types of threats," said Phil Neray, vice-president of marketing. "Unfortunately, in tough economic times, IT administrators are being asked to do more with fewer people, making it difficult to constantly keep up with all the latest security patches using conventional manual approaches. Our customers tell us that automated management solutions such as ON Command CCM are the only effective mechanism for addressing this serious and ongoing challenge with limited IT budgets and resources." Pricing
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ON Technology, ON Command, and ON Command CCM are registered trademarks, and the ON logo and ON iCommand are trademarks of ON Technology Corporation. Microsoft and Windows are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries. All other brand names and trademarks are properties of their respective owners. The statements in this press release that relate to ON Technology’s future plans, events and performance are 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. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Some of the important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by the forward-looking statements are general economic conditions, including the current weakness in the global economy, demand for the Company’s products and services, performance of the Company’s direct and indirect distribution channels, competitive pressures, market acceptance of the Company’s new products and technologies, and the risk factors detailed from time to time in ON Technology’s periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including without limitation the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the third quarter of 2003 filed in November 2003. Actual results and performance may differ materially due to these and other factors. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. ON Technology undertakes no obligation to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements contained in this press release that may reflect events or circumstances occurring after the date of this press release.
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