Datacom Deploys MAX to Manage Client GMW

Singapore, 25 May 2004 - Equator One (E1), an emerging leader in infrastructure management solutions, today announced that Datacom has deployed E1's MAX Infrastructure Management Suite (MAX) to maintain and manage the entire IT infrastructure of its client Goulburn-Murray Water (GMW)-an array of servers, printers and routers dispersed across numerous locations. Datacom required a tool to efficiently manage both the remote installations and the all-critical head office site, and MAX has proven to fulfill this need.

According to Mr. Stuart Knauf, Datacom Service Delivery Manager, the company's decision to use MAX was based on its accuracy, efficiency, ease of use, and cost-effectiveness. Mr. Knauf has had experience with other management products, and feels that MAX is a good value. "MAX is affordable, in that it delivers what the bigger tools do, but at a fraction of the cost. MAX enables us to manage sites with just one person; the rollout is straightforward, and the deployment is easy."

E1 CEO Wilfred Wong said, "We are very pleased to provide this much-needed solution to Datacom. MAX has powerful infrastructure monitoring and management tools, and it is gratifying to see them being used to expedite new service deployment."

About Datacom

Datacom is an IT conglomerate headquartered in New Zealand with operations in the Australia/NZ region. Its many divisions comprise a steadily expanding business base, and have been commissioned to work with several government agencies and offices on various projects within the region. Datacom Financial Services Division, for example, has partnered with Dunn & Bradstreet (D&B) on a joint venture to provide D&B's call center operations. Datacom Technical Services Division incorporates onsite, remote and general support for a wide range of software and hardware platforms, application development, secure database development and deployment, outsourcing, and remote management contracts.

About Equator One

Equator One today stands out as an emerging leader in providing IT infrastructure management solutions to enterprises and next-generation service providers, empowering them to optimize the performance and availability of their mission-critical computing infrastructures. E1's comprehensive suite of solutions is based on an open, distributed and scalable architecture, and provides proactive monitoring, measurement and control of IT resources. E1 products also offer service level agreement management, fault management and network performance management of all applications and systems within a network environment. E1 solutions allow customers to simplify management at all points of network congestion, thus reducing the cost of ongoing maintenance, and delivering high returns on investments, as well as lower total cost of ownership. Headquartered in Singapore, with liaison offices in Taiwan, the United States and India, Equator One (www.equatorone.com) is establishing the US headquarters in San Diego in the near future.