Tivoli and Symantec announce Year 2000 solution for small to medium businesses

- Tivoli Manager For Norton 2000 IT Director Edition To Be Bundled With Symantec's Norton 2000 -

- Free Norton Anti-Virus For New IT Director Customers Purchasing The Tivoli/Symantec Bundle -

SYDNEY --NSW - February 8, 1999 -- Tivoli Systems, the world leader in IT management solutions, and Symantec, the world leader in utility software for business and personal computing, have announced the bundling of the new Tivoli Manager for Norton 2000, IT Director Edition, with Symantec's Norton 2000 Corporate Edition.

The Tivoli Manager for Norton 2000 provides customers with a centralised management solution that helps proactively detect and resolve Year 2000 compliance issues throughout their network computing environments. Norton 2000 identifies Y2K date anomalies in most popular spreadsheets and databases, and automatically distributes patches and upgrades of non-Y2K compliant software applications to desktops via the IT Director console.

New Tivoli IT Director/Norton 2000 Customers To Receive Equivalent Number Of Norton Antivirus Licences Free Of Charge
Until June 30 1999, customers purchasing Tivoli IT Director and the Tivoli/Symantec Year 2000 bundle, will receive an equivalent number of Norton AntiVirus Solution suite licences free of charge. Norton Anti-Virus is highly integrated with Tivoli IT Director and is certified at the Premiere level * the highest level of product integration.

The Tivoli/Symantec Year 2000 bundle is available from Tivoli IT Director resellers across Australia. These resellers include: IT Services in Adelaide; Data 3 in Brisbane; BCA, Com Tech Communications, Senteq and Software Spectrum in Melbourne; BCA and BMIS in Perth; and BCA, Com Tech Communications, Senteq and Software Spectrum in Sydney.

SME Environment Under-resourced
"Although there has been much activity surrounding Year 2000 compliance issues for mainframes, the networks and PCs that contain most of the mission critical data have not yet been sufficiently addressed," said Garry Sexton, Symantec's vice president, Asia Pacific. "The combination of Norton 2000 with Tivoli IT Director's centralised management provides a quick and easy assessment of the risks facing an organisation which will then help them to develop a management plan."

Year 2000 Resolution
With the constant introduction of new data files, applications and desktop systems, small to medium size organisations demand Year 2000 analysis and resolution. With limited IT staff and budget, these companies require a solution that proactively detects and informs them of potential problems. Tivoli Manager for Norton 2000 integrates Symantec Norton 2000 and Tivoli IT Director, enabling an end-to-end Year 2000 solution. The combined products resolve Year 2000 vulnerabilities using systems and network management to quickly deploy date processing fixes and patches created by customers specifically for "problem programs."

How It Works
Symantec Norton 2000 Corporate Edition scans desktop assets for anomalies in important data files, system BIOS and real-time clocks. It also continually updates its application database with Symantec Live Update* and provides log files from multiple systems to Tivoli IT Director.

Tivoli IT Director centralises the Year 2000 detection process and helps automate correction. Based on a severity level reported by Symantec Norton 2000, Tivoli IT Director generates an automated event, proactively paging or e-mailing an administrator when a severity threshold is detected. Using Tivoli IT Director, the IT support team can be confident that their environment is being continuously monitored and that upgrades, patches and entirely new applications can be automatically applied to hundreds of affected desktops.

Channel partners providing Year 2000 services can use Tivoli Manager for Norton 2000, IT Director Edition, to reduce the time it takes to evaluate Year 2000 problems in businesses and provide a more efficient way to generate and implement a solution to reduce a customer's Year 2000 problems.

"Symantec's Norton 2000 is one of the most effective and easy-to-use Year 2000 solutions on the market," said Ania Bokina, marketing manager for Tivoli Systems in Australia and New Zealand. "Our joint solution with Symantec helps small to medium businesses quickly assess, upgrade and maintain their Year 2000 compliance across hundreds of IT resources."

Availability and Pricing
All products are available now. Symantec's Norton 2000 is priced from AUD $79 per copy. Multiple licenses with cheaper buy breaks are available through the Symantec Value License Program (VLP). Optional upgrade insurance is available with the VLP program. Tivoli Manager for Norton 2000 is a free module available with Norton 2000. Tivoli IT Director Management Server (includes licence to manage 20 nodes) is priced at AUD $16,623. All products are available through Tivoli resellers.

System Requirements
Norton 2000 v1.01 Corporate Edition works with Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT 3.51 and higher. It requires 80486 or higher processor, 16 MB of RAM and 10 MB of available hard disk space. Tivoli IT Director operates on Windows NT 4.0 and requires a Pentium class 166 MHz or higher processor, 64 MB of RAM, 150 MB virtual memory and 75 MB of available hard disk space. It supports a variety of client platforms, including Windows 3.x, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, IBM OS/2 and Novell Netware.

About Tivoli IT Director
Designed from the ground up for companies with hundreds of employees, Tivoli IT Director provides IT administrators with comprehensive, integrated functions that allow organisations to manage applications, systems and networks from a single point of control. Based on Microsoft's Windows NT operating system, Tivoli IT Director is a member of the Designed for Microsoft BackOffice logo program. Tivoli IT Director integrates applications management, sophisticated automation and Internet-enabled management with an easy-to-use set of management functions, including software distribution, inventory management, monitoring, remote control and network management.

About Tivoli Systems
Tivoli Systems Inc. provides the industry's leading open, highly scalable and cross-platform management solutions that span networks, systems, applications and business-to-business e-commerce. Leading companies around the world use Tivoli Software and compatible third-party products to reduce the cost and complexity of managing networks, systems, databases and applications. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Tivoli is an IBM Company. Tivoli distributes its products worldwide, through a network of global sales offices, system integrators, resellers and IBM sales channels.

About Symantec
Symantec is the world leader in utility software for business and personal computing. Symantec products and solutions help make users productive and keep their computers safe and reliable anywhere and anytime. Symantec offers a broad range of solutions and is acclaimed as a leader in both customer satisfaction and product brand recognition. Symantec is traded on Nasdaq under the symbol SYMC. More information on the company and its products can be obtained at www.symantec.com.

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