will give it some very large Australian customers, including QBE, Westpac Bank and Virgin Blue. MessageLabs, which opened its regional headquarters for Asia Pacific in Sydney in August 2003, has made huge in-roads in the Australian market for hosted messaging security. Over the past five years, the company has locked up massive deals across a variety of industries. Besides Westpac and Virgin Blue, Symantec is set to inherit NSW Health, Commonwealth Bank-owned Colonial First State, insurance giant QBE and engineering heavyweight Theiss. Other notable clients include paper-recycling tycoon Richard Pratt's Visy, Transpacific Industries Group, ISS Facility Services Australia, and through a deal MessageLabs struck with the NSW Government last year, at least 172 councils and 380 libraries. On the other hand, exactly how much...
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