Mercury Launches Chinese, Korean and Japanese Versions of Mercury Business Availability Center

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today, Mercury Interactive Corporation , the global leader in business technology optimization (BTO), unveiled Chinese, Korean and Japanese versions of Mercury Business Availability Center(TM) solutions. Mercury also announced that these offerings will be available through Mercury Managed Services(TM). Mercury Business Availability Center helps customers manage application performance and availability from an end-user perspective, manage application service levels delivered to the business, and mitigate risk by improving visibility into application performance problems across the lifecycle.

Mercury made this announcement as part of its market expansion strategy in Asia-Pacific and to meet the demands of the fast-growing markets in China, Korea and Japan. The launch of these localized versions of Mercury Business Availability Center follows the release of the Chinese version of Mercury Quality Center(TM) in January 2005. Providing local versions of Mercury application delivery and application management products, helps customers take a lifecycle approach to optimizing application quality and management.

"We see leading companies throughout Asia-Pacific increasing their use of enterprise software to automate key business processes," said Wilson Tan, president of Mercury Asia Pacific and Japan. "We believe that the localized versions of Mercury Business Availability Center will help accelerate our application management leadership and help our customers in China, Korea and Japan optimize the performance of their business-critical applications."

"As Korea's largest search portal and on-line game services provider, IT is the enabler for our business and NHN must support hundreds of millions of page views a day for our portal sites," said Byung Sul Lim, Director of IT at NHN. "Using Mercury Business Availability Center helps us ensure that our business-critical applications deliver superb end-user experience and performance on a 24/7 basis and we have real time visibility of our on-line business."

Mercury also announced that it will provide localized versions of Mercury Business Availability Center with full local language user interfaces in Chinese, Korean and Japanese through Mercury Managed Services. With Mercury Managed Services, customers in China, Korea and Japan will be able to quickly address their most urgent application management initiatives. Mercury Managed Services provides Mercury application management products as a hosted service through the Internet. As part of the service Mercury deploys a professional services team to help customers remotely manage the performance and availability of business-critical ERP, CRM and custom applications. On average, Mercury Managed Services can help customers achieve initial time to value on their IT initiatives in weeks or even days. Since its introduction in January 2000, Mercury Managed Services has helped more than 1,000 customers tackle some of their most challenging application management and optimization issues.

Availability

Mercury Business Availability Center with local language user interfaces in Chinese, Korean and Japanese is available now. Mercury Managed Services for Mercury Business Availability Center is available now with support for Chinese, Korean and Japanese user-defined character sets. Full local language user interfaces in Chinese, Korean and Japanese will be offered through Mercury Managed Services in the third quarter of 2005.

Mercury Application Management

Mercury Application Management offerings help optimize the business availability and performance of mission-critical applications. Mercury Business Availability Center(TM) offerings and Mercury Managed Services(TM) help customers take a strategic, business-centric approach to managing applications in production. Mercury is one of the fastest growing application management companies in the business technology optimization market.

About Mercury

Mercury Interactive Corporation, the global leader in business technology optimization (BTO), is committed to helping customers optimize the business value of information technology. Founded in 1989, Mercury conducts business worldwide and is one of the fastest growing 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: Mercury, Mercury Business Availability Center, Mercury Managed Services, Mercury Quality Center, Mercury Interactive and the Mercury logo are trademarks of Mercury Interactive Corporation and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.

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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 impact of any mergers, acquisitions, divestitures or other business combinations; 5) uncertainties related to the integration of products, services, employees and operations as a result of acquisitions; 6) the ability to increase sales through our direct and indirect channels, as well as international sales; 7) intense competition for Mercury's products and services; and 8) 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.