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- Unveils Major New Version of Mercury Quality Center LAS VEGAS, Oct. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today at Mercury World 2005, Mercury Interactive Corporation (NASDAQ:MERQE), the global leader in business technology optimization (BTO) software, announced Mercury Quality Center(TM) 8.2, a strategic part of Mercury BTO Enterprise(TM). The major new version of Mercury's application delivery optimization center allows customers to automate software quality management across a wide range of application environments, provide visibility of quality projects, and align the priorities of quality assurance professionals with the requirements of the business. "Mercury sees our customers investing in testing to help deliver high- quality applications," said Rajesh Radhakrishnan, vice president of application delivery products at Mercury. "The new version of Mercury Quality Center will help customers involve the right business stakeholders, at the right time in the development process, to help customers reach the right business outcomes." Mercury Quality Center 8.2 is comprised of a new and enhanced set of Mercury application modules, a real-time dashboard and an enterprise foundation. The software modules in Mercury Quality Center include Mercury Test Director(TM), Mercury QuickTest Professional(TM), Mercury WinRunner(TM), and Mercury Business Process Testing(TM). New features and enhancements in Mercury Quality Center 8.2 include: * Enhanced dashboard that allows users to configure their quality metrics and measure and manage these metrics through the quality process. The dashboard includes 24 out-of-the box quality key performance indicators (KPIs), enables customers to create custom KPIs, and provides integrations with standards-based corporate portals; * Updated business process testing capabilities for automated user acceptance testing and support for Mercury QuickTestProfessional and Mercury WinRunner; and * New integrations with Mercury IT Governance Center(TM) to help ensure that the testing of changes starts in conjunction with development, and provide detailed reporting of application change status and visibility of testing initiatives through dashboard integrations. "Application quality is becoming the shared responsibility of many disparate teams across the enterprise including QA engineers, business analysts, and line of business experts," said Theresa Lanowitz, research director at Gartner, Inc. "We see many companies focusing on automating and integrating these areas to help ensure applications will support the right business requirements and are tested from a business perspective prior to deployment." Mercury Quality Center 8.2 is available today and is delivered as an in- house deployment or through Mercury Managed Services(TM). For more information, please visit http://www.mercury.com/us/products/quality-center. 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 BTO Enterprise Mercury BTO Enterprise is the industry's first integrated suite of business technology optimization (BTO) offerings designed to help customers optimize the business outcomes of IT. Mercury BTO Enterprise is comprised of new application change and performance lifecycle offerings as well as major new versions of Mercury IT Governance Center(TM), Mercury Quality Center(TM), Mercury Performance Center(TM), and Mercury Business Availability Center(TM). ABOUT MERCURY Mercury Interactive Corporation (NASDAQ:MERQE), 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/. 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 March 31, 2005, and the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2004, 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. Mercury, Mercury BTO Enterprise, Mercury Quality Center, Mercury Test Director, Mercury QuickTest Professional, Mercury WinRunner, Mercury Business Process Testing, Mercury IT Governance Center, Mercury Managed Services, Mercury Performance Center, Mercury Business Availability Center, 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 DATASOURCE: Mercury Interactive Corporation CONTACT: Robin Stoecker, +1-650-603-5854, , or Heather Sieberg, +1-650-603-5104, , both of Mercury Web site: http://www.mercury.com/ http://www.mercury.com/us/products/quality-center

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