With Addition of Veritas Application Director and Veritas Patch Manager, Symantec Offers the Industry's Most Comprehensive Data Center Automation Solution

AUSTRALIA, Sydney - 5 December 2006 - Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced major new capabilities within its Veritas Server Foundation product family to transform the emerging field of Data Center Automation (DCA). The release of Veritas Application Director brings to Veritas Server Foundation the industry's only solution to enable IT to control when and where multi-tiered applications run across heterogeneous physical and virtual environments to maximise server utilisation and application availability. Symantec also announced Veritas Patch Manager, which adds patch management and patch distribution functionality to the existing operating system and application provisioning capabilities of Veritas Server Foundation.

Melbourne, Australia – In a world-first, a new mobile geospatial service designed and produced by Geomatic Technologies, in conjunction with technology partners Readify and Microsoft, will ensure that the more than 90,000 visitors to the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games can find their way to events, restaurants and entertainment. Supported by the Victorian Government through the Office of the Chief Information Officer, the service was launched today by the Minister for Information and Communication, Marsha Thomson.

Adelaide, Australia – Following a successful pilot in 2005, ETSA Utilities has engaged Geomatic Technologies to extend the asset survey across the entire state of South Australia.

Melbourne, Australia – Adrian Lewis and Mark Judd, Directors of Geomatic Technologies (GT), have been announced as the winners of the Southern Region Entrepreneur of the Year Awards in the category Technology, Communications, E-Commerce and Life Sciences for 2006. This renowned global business award, aims to honour entrepreneurs for their success in “building and leading successful, growing and dynamic businesses.” Ernst & Young is the proud founder and producer of the Entrepreneur of the Year Awards and winners are recognised internationally “as world class entrepreneurs.”

Melbourne, Australia – The Geospatial Information and Technology Association (GITA) Excellence Award was presented to the Directions Plus project at the GITA Conference dinner on Tuesday 22nd August at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The Excellence Award Program is internationally recognised and aims to award government or private sector organisations, which use geospatial technology to achieve outstanding results.

The 2006 Victorian Spatial Excellence Awards aim to reward individuals and organisations for their accomplishments and contributions to their industry. In addition, they enable individuals and organisations to compete against the best in Victoria. The panel of judges consisted of industry peers appointed by the ASIBA and SSI, for their appreciation of the wide spectrum of applications in spatial information and its associated technologies.

12th September 2006, Melbourne, Australia – Geomatic Technologies (GT), with the Department of Infrastructure (DOI), have together completed the Victorian Rail Infrastructure Survey and Pass Assets project. The project involved producing a register of assets associated with Victoria’s Rail Infrastructure,  estimated to be worth $6 billion. The register was identified by the State Government as being a requirement following the rail privatisation process in the late 90’s. Geomatic Technologies was commissioned by the DOI, to conduct a state-wide survey of all rail infrastructure through Metropolitan Melbourne and Rural Victoria.

22nd September 2006, Cairns, Australia – The winner of the Industry and Entrepreneurship Award of the 2006 Queensland Spatial Excellence Awards, has been announced as Geomatic Technologies (GT), for the Field Mobile Computing (GT FMC) – Asset Inspection Project. The award was presented to GT Director, Adrian Lewis, at a ceremony held at the Cairns Convention Centre in Cairns, Queensland.