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Satyam Placed in Leaders Quadrant for Application Services by Leading Industry Analyst Firm

"Satyam leverages its application factories and intimate knowledge of customer applications and business to deliver transformational benefits to our clients," said Ravi Bommakanti, Head of Satyam's Application Development & Maintenance Services (ADMS) Practice. "Application services will always be a Satyam strength, and we believe evaluation by an organization of Gartner's caliber and renowned independence is recognition of our exceptional teams."

Satyam develops and delivers best-in-class application development solutions, with quality and speed, to suit customers' unique business requirements and strategies. Its experienced development professionals leverage new technologies, enhanced frameworks, and mature methodologies to create superior applications that feature standardized processes and enable business transformation. Moreover, the company continues to expand its global reach, and has recently opened development facilities inBrazil,Egypt,South Africa,Malaysia andAustralia.

About Satyam

Satyam (NYSE: SAY), a leading global business and information technology services company, delivers consulting, systems integration, and outsourcing solutions to clients in 20* industries and more than 65* countries.

Satyam leverages deep industry and functional expertise, leading technology practices, and an advanced, global delivery model to help clients transform their highest-value business processes and improve their business performance. The company's 52,865* professionals excel in engineering and product development, supply chain management, client relationship management, business process quality, business intelligence, enterprise integration, and infrastructure management, among other key capabilities.

Satyam development and delivery centers in the US,Canada,Brazil, the UK, Hungary,Egypt, UAE,India,China,Malaysia,Singapore, andAustralia serve 690* clients, including 185* Fortune 500. For more information, see http://www.satyam.com.

*As of September 30, 2008

About the Magic Quadrant

The Gartner Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2008 by Gartner, Inc., and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

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Safe Harbor

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of section 27A of Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The forward-looking statements contained herein are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in the forward- looking statements. Satyam undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statements. For a discussion of the risks associated with our business, please see the discussions under the heading "Risk Factors" in our report on Form 6-K concerning the quarter ended September 30, 2008, furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 7, 2008, and the other reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time. These filings are available at http://www.sec.gov.

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