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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- Legato Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:LGTO), a worldwide leader in enterprise storage management software, announced today that it is working with IBM to provide information protection, management and application availability for IBM's DB2 Universal Database running on Linux. The IBM Legato team will participate in the LinuxWorld 2001 event in San Francisco this week and will feature live demonstrations of its award-winning software with DB2. "Today's e-business customer demands continuous application availability for their business-critical, database systems," said Scott Handy, director, Linux Solutions Marketing, IBM Software Group. "A key factor in application availability is the management and protection of business-critical information those applications require. The combination of Legato's software and DB2, the industry's most scalable database running on Linux will meet the requirements of customers deploying business applications on Linux today by delivering a cost-effective, highly reliable solution that will maximize application availability." According to IDC, Linux is the fastest growing server operating platform available today. In 2000, 27 percent of all new server operating systems licensed were for Linux, the open source platform (IDC). "Sophisticated storage software has been one of the missing puzzle pieces needed to make Linux acceptable as a mainstream operating system," said Dan Kusnetzky, vice president, system software, IDC. "The team of IBM and Legato are bringing forward hardware, software and services offerings which will complete the Linux puzzle for many organizations." For more information visit www.legato.com