Shanghai, China and Foster City, CA — December 20, 2006 -- Augmentum, a value-added software development outsourcing services provider, today announced that they had won the Buyer's Choice Risk Management award at the 2006 China Outsourcing Summit. This award is particularly significant because it is decided by a vote of the over 120 invited CIOs and IT department managers who attended the December 13-15 event in Shenzhen, China.

"The Risk Management award recognizes operational excellence, and the ability to mitigate the key types of risk in IT outsourcing; operational disruption risk, data risk, quality risk, and reputation risk," said Frank Yu, Augmentum President and COO. "Augmentum, from our founding, has always put the protection of our customers' operations and their IP security as a top priority in our culture. We believe this award recognizes our efforts, and the culture that has led Augmentum customers such as Microsoft, Intel, and Motorola to entrust us with high level, critical, full life cycle software development work."

The China Outsourcing Summit is produced by Vision Events®, a Gartner, Inc. (NYSE:IT) company.

About Augmentum
Augmentum offers value-added offshore software development services to its customers worldwide. Augmentum engineers augment their clients' teams as an extension, utilizing leading edge development tools and technologies, as well as proven processes, to create commercial-quality software. The management team has decades of collective experience outsourcing commercial software and solutions. Augmentum, Inc. is headquartered in Shanghai and Beijing in China and in Foster City, California. The company has grown to 800 people in China out of 850 worldwide in three years since its founding and won the inaugural Red Herring Asia Top 100 award in 2005. For more information, please visit www.augmentum.com or call (650) 578-9221.

About Vision Events
Vision Events, a Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) company, is a leading producer of highly focused business events that bring Resellers and End Users together with leading and emerging Vendors in Private Boardroom Appointments to form strategic partnerships and secure new business in the technology sector. Additional information about Vision Events can be found at www.visionevents.com.

About Gartner
Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) is the leading provider of research and analysis on the global information technology industry. Gartner serves more than 9,000 clients, including CIOs and other senior IT executives in corporations and government agencies, as well as technology companies and the investment community. The Company focuses on delivering objective, in-depth analysis and actionable advice to enable clients to make more informed business and technology decisions. The Company's businesses consist of Gartner Research and Events for IT professionals; Gartner Executive Programs, membership programs and peer networking services; and Gartner Consulting, customized engagements with a specific emphasis on outsourcing and IT management. Founded in 1979, Gartner is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, and has over 3,900 associates, including more than 1,200 research analysts and consultants in more than 75 countries worldwide. For more information, visit www.gartner.com.

Contacts:
USA: Lisa Carnochan
650.578.9221 ext. 104
lisa.carnochan@augmentum.com

China: Belinda Qin
011.86.21.5131.4277 ext. 431
belinda.qin@augmentum.com