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To: Feliciano L. Rivera who wrote (5737)	9/7/1999 8:49:00 AM
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Tuesday September 7, 8:01 am Eastern Time Company Press Release SOURCE: Network Associates, Inc. New Gartner Group/Dataquest Report Confirms Network Associates' Sniffer As World's Fastest Growing Market Share Leader in Network Management Software Report Also Confirms That Sniffer is Number One on the Microsoft Windows NT Platform With More Than 50 Percent of the Market SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- According to the newly published GartnerGroup/Dataquest ``Network and System Management Market Share' report, Network Associates' (Nasdaq: NETA - news) Sniffer Total Network Visibility suite experienced the greatest overall market share growth of any product in the broad network management software category last year. On the Microsoft Windows NT platform, by far the fastest growing segment of the market, the Sniffer product line holds a commanding 51.8 percent market share, more than three times that of its nearest competitor. The award-winning Sniffer product line helps predict, monitor and analyze network and application availability for today's demanding e-business marketplace. The report found that network management software is a $1.09 billion market worldwide, growing by more than 57 percent in 1998. The Microsoft Windows NT segment demonstrated the fastest growth expanding by more than 136 percent and increasing its share of the market to 32.5 percent in 1998. GartnerGroup/Dataquest defines network management software as applications designed to isolate and resolve faults on the network, measure and optimize performance, manage the network topology, and track resource utilization over time. According to the report, Network Associates' software licensing revenue for the Sniffer product line increased by more than 111 percent in last year, not taking into account an additional 25 percent of Sniffer-related hardware revenue. Even without hardware sales, the Sniffer product line ranked third overall in the broad network management market, less than three percentage points behind the largest enterprise framework vendors. According to the GartnerGroup/Dataquest report, Network Associates is the worldwide market share leader of Microsoft Windows NT network management software with a dominant 51.8 percent share. The new GartnerGroup/Dataquest report confirms the findings of numerous market studies, including a recent Infonetics Research survey in which the Sniffer product line was rated by network engineers as the number one solution to ensure network availability. ``Customers are increasingly looking to the Sniffer product line to deliver e-businesses solutions that help manage and maintain the availability and performance for a new generation of networks and Internet-enabled business applications,' said Paul Farr, vice president of product management, network management division, Network Associates. ``Our leading market share strength and explosive growth clearly demonstrates that Network Associates is the preferred provider to the thousands of organizations worldwide who are moving to e-business and can no longer afford delays in network and application availability.' Sniffer Total Network Visibility suite is a strategic integrated solution for maintaining optimum network performance in today's Internet-powered e-businesses, enabling IT organizations to proactively manage e-commerce Web sites, Voice and Video over IP, business-critical applications on the Internet, LANs, WANs, switched and high-speed networks. The Sniffer product line includes the following components: Sniffer Portable Analysis Suite: With the ability to simultaneously manage both LAN and WAN, it is the first and only network Expert Analysis system optimized for Microsoft NT Server, SQL Server, and Cisco-based networks. The Sniffer Portable Analysis suite is also the only Expert analyzer to integrate with switches and provide analysis of VLAN problems. The Sniffer product is the only network analyzer to bring real-time Expert analysis ability to high-speed backbone networks with an analysis solution for ATM, up to OC-12, and Gigabit Ethernet networks. Sniffer Distributed Analysis Suite: The first and only RMON2-compliant, Expert-based distributed network analyzer, Sniffer Distributed Analysis Suite delivers an application management system for troubleshooting and reporting of switched networks. Sniffer Distributed Analysis suite supports real-time network and application troubleshooting while simultaneously providing RMON2 statistics collection for use by reporting and analysis applications such as Network Informant. The Sniffer Distributed Analysis suite also features proactive network management capabilities, giving network managers visibility into the performance of mixed-device, multi-protocol networks. Sniffer Network Informant: The enterprise-scaleable NT-based flexible network reporting and analysis solution, offering a rich set of standard reports for managing service levels, controlling networking costs, managing growth, and proactively managing the health and availability of the network. Network Informant is highly extensible and customizable, allowing VARs and end-users to tailor its Web-based reporting capabilities to specific customer needs. When combined with the Sniffer Distributed Analysis suite, Network Informant provides a total view of the network and application patterns, allowing true enterprise network management.