Veritas (www.veritas.com)

As the leading provider of enterprise-class application storage management software, VERITAS® Software (Nasdaq: VRTS) ensures the continuous availability of business-critical information by delivering integrated, cross-platform storage management software solutions. Founded in 1982, the Mountain View, Calif.-based Company has grown to more than 3,700 employees residing in 24 countries worldwide. Included in VERITAS Software's rapid growth are the three significant acquisitions of the Network and Storage Management Group of Seagate Software and TeleBackup Systems on May 28, 1999, and OpenVision Technologies in April 1997. Revenues exceeded $596 million in FY99, and the Company ranked eighth out of a diverse group of 100 fast-growth companies in Fortune magazine's "100 Fastest Growing Companies" list (Fortune, Sept. 6, 1999). Over the past decade, VERITAS Software has become the largest and fastest-growing storage-management software company, joining the Nasdaq-100 Index in January 1999 and the S 500 Index in April 2000. With a $63.2 billion market capitalization (March 24, 2000), VERITAS Software securely stands as one of the top-five software companies in the world and has been on the "Hot Growth Companies" list at BusinessWeek magazine for four consecutive years, debuting in 1996 at 59 and steadily ascending to position 30 in 1999. In addition to appearing on the BusinessWeek and Fortune lists, VERITAS Software appeared on Forbes' "200 Best Small Companies in America" list for two consecutive years and was featured as the second-most dynamic software company in the Forbes ASAP "Dynamic 100" list (Forbes ASAP, April 5, 1999).

VERITAS Software is the de-facto standard for application storage management, with over 60 of the world's leading servers and operating systems integrating its software. To ensure integrated, out-of-the-box application storage management solutions, VERITAS Software is a premier strategic partner with all major industry drivers. The Company's OEM customers and strategic alliances include industry pacesetters from the device level to high-end Windows NT and UNIX vendors. VERITAS Software provides continuous availability of business-critical information for companies of all sizes from some of the world's best-known blue-chip corporations to business managers to IT professionals. VERITAS Software provides these customers with enterprise-class application storage management software solutions that they can rely on and appeases their desire to work with a company that not only cares about them, but also exhibits integrity - VERITAS translates to "Truth."