Mercury Awarded Grand Prize in Software Test & Performance 2005 Testers Choice Awards

Mercury Application Delivery Offerings Win Eight Awards 


MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 30  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today, Mercury Interactive Corporation (NASDAQ:MERQE), the global leader in business technology optimization (BTO) software, announced that it has been awarded the grand prize and first place awards in seven product categories in the Software Test & Performance Testers Choice Awards. The awards recognize excellence in software test and performance management products used by enterprise testing and quality assurance (QA) teams to improve software quality.

Award winners were determined by Software Test & Performance magazine subscribers who voted on products in specific categories. Mercury won awards in the following categories:

  -- Grand Prize, awarded to Mercury TestDirector(TM) for being the highest
     vote-getter in any category;
  -- Data Test/Performance, awarded to Mercury LoadRunner(R) for testing,
     validating and tuning databases and data sets;
  -- Load/Performance Test, awarded to Mercury LoadRunner for determining
     the performance of Web, client and server applications before or
     after deployment;
  -- Functional Test, awarded to Mercury QuickTest Professional(TM) for
     evaluating applications and components, including unit, requirements
     and user-interface testing;
  -- Test/QA Management, awarded to Mercury TestDirector for managing the
     test process, including test cases, beta programs and reporting;
  -- Test Automation Solution, awarded to Mercury QuickTest Professional for
     creating, maintaining and deploying test-automation systems;
  -- Java Test/Performance, awarded to Mercury LoadRunner for Java and
     Java 2 Enterprise Edition developers and test/QA professionals; and
  -- Integrated Test Suite, awarded to Mercury TestDirector for a full
     test/QA solution that spans multiple test categories.



"The arbiters of excellence who selected Mercury for this honor are our subscribers:  the actual software testers and QA managers, software developers and other test professionals who rely upon these technologies every day," said Lindsey Vereen, editor of Software Test & Performance magazine. "Peer voting is the strongest recommendation possible for the best products and services. With the Testers Choice awards, the real experts, our subscribers, have bestowed high praise on the winners."

"Mercury is pleased to be recognized by Software Test & Performance readers for application delivery product excellence," said Rajesh Radhakrishnan, vice president, application delivery products at Mercury. "Mercury is committed to helping customers deliver high-quality applications that deliver the right business outcomes."

For the past 15 years, Mercury has helped thousands of customers optimize application quality and performance. According to IDC, Mercury is the uncontested leader in application delivery with more than 58 percent market share, nearly three times that of any other vendor(1). Mercury is positioned in the leader quadrant in Gartner Inc.'s "Application Quality Ecosystem, 2005: Leaders and Challengers.(2)"

For more information about the grand prize winning product, Mercury TestDirector, please visit: http://download.mercury.com/cgi-bin/portal/download/loginForm.jsp?id=65.

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/.

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted March 8, 2005 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. For more information on the Gartner "Magic Quadrant for Application Quality Ecosystem, 2005: Leaders and Challengers" please visit http://www.gartner.com/.

NOTE:  Mercury, Mercury LoadRunner, Mercury QuickTest Professional, Mercury TestDirector and the Mercury logo are trademarks of Mercury Interactive Corporation and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.

All other company, brand and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

(1) IDC Worldwide Distributed Automated Software Quality Tools 2005-2009 Forecast and 2004 Vendor Shares, July 26, 2005 ID 33771

(2) Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Quality Ecosystem, 2005: Leaders and Challengers; March 8, 2005 ID G00124029 

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