Press Release: For Immediate Release

VERITAS Software Announces Product Road Map for Bare Metal Restore
Capability

Future Bare Metal Restore enhancements focused on VERITAS NetBackup data
protection enterprise environments

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.- January 6, 2003 - VERITAS Software Corporation
(Nasdaq: VRTS), the leading storage software company, today announced
plans to focus future product development for VERITAS Bare Metal
Restore  disaster recovery technology on the VERITAS NetBackup  data
protection environment. VERITAS Software also announced plans to
discontinue future sales of a separate product, VERITAS Bare Metal
Restore for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, effective June 15, 2003. VERITAS
Software will continue to provide technical support for Bare Metal
Restore for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (version 3.2.1) through June 15,
2005.
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