BEA and Mercury Offer Joint Lifecycle Solution for Application Optimization

- Mercury Diagnostics Profiler Now Exclusively Bundled with New Versions of BEA WebLogic and JRockit




BEIJING and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Dec. 8  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BEAWORLD 2005 -- BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:BEAS), a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, and Mercury Interactive Corporation (NASDAQ:MERQE), the global leader in business technology optimization (BTO) software, today announced a strategic alliance to help customers deliver more consistent, predictable and measurable business outcomes from SOA initiatives. Mercury and BEA will provide customers using WebLogic and JRockit(R) with industry leading diagnostic products for solving application performance issues and detecting memory leaks in mission critical applications. With this integrated offering, BEA customers will receive out-of-the-box performance diagnostics capabilities in their development environment.

Mercury and BEA signed a cross-licensing agreement and plan to exclusively bundle Mercury Diagnostics Profiler(TM) with new versions of JRockit and BEA WebLogic Server, and distribute BEA's JRockit Mission Control diagnostic toolset to Mercury Diagnostics(TM) customers.  In addition, BEA will also use Mercury Application Management and Application Delivery offerings, such as Mercury Diagnostics and Mercury LoadRunner(R), as the preferred performance management solution of choice for support, critical situations and proofs of concept.

"The combination of BEA WebLogic and Mercury application delivery and application management products provides a single, shared performance management solution for developers, architects, quality assurance and IT operations teams," said Sri Muthu, VP of Investment Technology at Wells Fargo. "This integrated solution from Mercury and BEA will make it easier for Wells Fargo to identify and resolve problems during the software development lifecycle before they impact business results."

Mercury Diagnostics(TM) provides a top-down, lifecycle approach to seamlessly manage, monitor, diagnose and resolve critical problems across the application lifecycle. This enables users to start with the end-user business process, then drill down into application components and system layers to pinpoint performance bottlenecks. By leveraging Mercury's lifecycle performance management offerings, BEA customers can deploy with confidence and accelerate problem resolution in pre-production or post production.

JRockit Mission Control is a suite of diagnostic tools specifically designed to give customers deeper access into the WebLogic stack in order to monitor, manage, profile and detect memory leaks and performance issues that can occur during development. In combination with Mercury Diagnostics and Mercury Diagnostics Profiler, IT managers will be able to detect and resolve performance problems earlier in the application lifecycle.

"This alliance improves our mutual customers' ability to rapidly resolve application problems that have the greatest business impact," said Yuval Scarlat, senior vice president of products at Mercury. "Now Mercury and BEA customers will have an integrated lifecycle solution to deliver high quality applications that perform to meet the needs of the business."

"Enabling the free flow of information, business processes and services within and across businesses is key to optimizing enterprise productivity, and the cornerstone of our Vision," said Wai Wong, executive vice president of products at BEA Systems. "We're pleased to partner with Mercury to provide joint customers with a solution that helps them significantly improve the performance and reliability of their applications as well as further advance their SOA initiatives"

"Our alliance with Mercury will enable users of the WebLogic platform and Mercury products to better manage and optimize mission critical applications," said Guy Churchward, general manager of the Java Runtime Products Group for BEA Systems. "There's no reason for customers to wait for problems to arise before they fix them. With the powerful combination of JRockit and Mercury diagnostic products, customers will detect those problems earlier and resolve them more quickly, enabling a faster time to market and a lower total cost of ownership."

Availability

BEA is currently offering the Mercury Diagnostics Profiler with BEA WebLogic Sever 9,0 and JRockit JVM downloads at no additional cost. Mercury will begin shipping BEA's Mission Control Suite as part of their Mercury Diagnostics offering in the first quarter of next year.

About BEAWorld

BEAWorld is the annual infrastructure software technology conference providing critical insights, hands on instruction, best-practice strategies, and opportunities for interaction with like-minded professionals, industry leaders, visionaries and expert practitioners.

In addition to helping make SOA a successful reality, BEAWorld delivers the latest information on infrastructure technologies including BEA Tuxedo(R) BEA WebLogic, BEA AquaLogic and a Partner Showcase that highlights the latest and greatest from the extensive BEA partner community.

Previous BEAWorlds occurred in Santa Clara (September 27-29); London (October 11-12); Paris (October 13-14); Prague (October 18-19); and Tokyo (October 25-26).

About BEA

BEA Systems, Inc. is the world's leading application infrastructure software company, providing the enterprise software foundation that allows thousands of companies to benefit from service-oriented architectures. With more than 15,000 customers around the world, including the majority of the Fortune Global 500, BEA and its WebLogic(R) and Tuxedo(R) brands are among the most trusted names in business.

Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., BEA has 77 offices in 37 countries and is on the Web at http://www.bea.com/.

About Mercury

Mercury Interactive Corporation, the global leader in business technology optimization (BTO) software, is committed to helping customers optimize the business value of information technology. Founded in 1989, Mercury conducts business worldwide and is one of the largest enterprise software companies today. Mercury provides software and services for IT Governance, Application Delivery, and Application Management. Customers worldwide rely on Mercury offerings to govern the priorities, processes and people of IT and test and manage the quality and performance of business-critical applications. Mercury BTO offerings are complemented by technologies and services from global business partners. For more information, please visit http://www.mercury.com/.

NOTE:  BEA, Tuxedo, WebLogic, BEA WebLogic Server and BEA JRockit are registered trademarks and BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform, BEA WebLogic Integration, BEA WebLogic Portal, BEA WebLogic JRockit, BEA WebLogic Platform, BEA WebLogic Express, BEA WebLogic Workshop, BEA WebLogic Java Adapter for Mainframe, BEA Liquid Data for WebLogic, BEA eLink and BEA WebLogic Enterprise Security are trademarks of BEA Systems, Inc. All other company and product names may be the subject of intellectual property rights reserved by third parties.

Mercury, Mercury Diagnostics, Mercury LoadRunner, and the Mercury logo are trademarks of Mercury Interactive Corporation and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.

Forward Looking Statements

This press release contains "forward-looking statements" under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 that involve risks and uncertainties concerning Mercury's future product and service offerings. Mercury's actual product and service plans and results may differ materially from the forward- looking statements made by, or on behalf of, Mercury. The potential risks and uncertainties include, among other things: 1) the timing of the availability of Mercury products, services, product enhancements and service enhancements; 2) the failure of Mercury products, services, product enhancements and service enhancements to meet customers' expectations, needs or perform as described; 3) the dependence of Mercury's financial growth on the continued success and acceptance of its existing and new software products and services, and the success of its BTO strategy; 4) the ability to increase sales through our direct and indirect channels, as well as international sales; 5) intense competition for Mercury's products and services; and 6) the additional risks and important factors described in Mercury's SEC reports, including the Annual Report to Stockholders on Form 10-K for fiscal year ended December 31, 2004, and the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2005, which are available at the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov/. All of the information in this press release is made as of the date of this press release, and Mercury undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statements.

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