Exhibit 99.30



             Avocent Appoints Stephen M. Daly as General
                 Manager of LANDesk Software Division


    HUNTSVILLE, Ala. & SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 16,
2006--Avocent Corporation (NASDAQ: AVCT) today announced that Stephen
M. Daly, Avocent's senior vice president of corporate strategy, was
appointed general manager of the LANDesk Software Division, effective
January 1, 2007.

    "Steve Daly's appointment as general manager of LANDesk will
leverage his experience as a member of Avocent's executive team and
his past experience at LANDesk, while it was part of Intel
Corporation," said John Cooper, chairman and chief executive officer
of Avocent. "Steve has been instrumental in developing our strategy
for enhancing our long-term growth prospects, including the recent
acquisition of LANDesk. We expect him to be an important catalyst in
integrating LANDesk with Avocent and expanding our presence into new
markets such as service management."

    Since 2003, Mr. Daly has been a member of the Avocent executive
team, serving as vice president of embedded solutions and most
recently as senior vice president of corporate strategy. Previously,
Mr. Daly was the chief executive officer of Soronti, Inc., a Draper,
Utah firm focused on the KVM switch marketplace, until it was
purchased by Avocent in 2003. Prior to joining Soronti, Mr. Daly was
employed by Intel working in its systems management business, which
subsequently became LANDesk Software.

    "This is an exciting time to be at LANDesk," said Mr. Daly. "We
expect to leverage Avocent's resources to develop new systems and
security management solutions for LANDesk and expand its presence into
IT service management. At the same time, LANDesk will collaborate
across Avocent to integrate our complimentary hardware and software
technologies to create new solutions that enable customers to manage
IT resources in ways not possible today."

    About LANDesk Software

    LANDesk, an Avocent company, is a leading provider of systems,
security, and process management solutions for desktops, servers and
mobile devices across the enterprise. LANDesk enables thousands of
organizations to easily deploy and use end-to-end management
solutions. LANDesk is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, with
offices located in the Americas, Europe and Asia. Additional
information is available at www.landesk.com.

    About Avocent Corporation

    Avocent delivers IT operations and infrastructure management
solutions for enterprises worldwide, helping customers reduce the cost
and simplify the management of complex IT environments via integrated,
centralized in-band and out-of-band hardware and software. Additional
information is available at: www.avocent.com.

    Forward-Looking Statements

    This press release contains statements that are forward-looking
statements as defined within the U.S. Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995. These include statements regarding the development
of new systems and management solutions and Avocent's growth and
expansion into these and other new markets. These forward-looking
statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause
actual results to differ materially from the statements made,
including the risks associated with the integration of the LANDesk
businesses and technologies, risks associated with general economic
conditions, risks attributable to future product demand, sales, and
expenses, risks associated with product design efforts and the
introduction of new products and technologies, and risk associated
with obtaining and protecting intellectual property rights. Other
factors that could cause operating and financial results to differ are
described in Avocent's reports on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q filed with
the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.



    CONTACT: Avocent Corporation
             Edward H. Blankenship, 256-217-1301
             Senior Vice President of Finance
             and Chief Financial Officer