Unisys To Resell Mercury Interactive's Automated Testing Solutions Worldwide

Business Wire, Dec 16, 1998

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 16, 1998--

New Partnership Helps Ensure Greater Success in

Application Deployment for Unisys Customers

Mercury Interactive Corporation (Nasdaq:MERQ), the world's leading provider of enterprise application testing solutions, today announced a reseller's agreement with Unisys Corporation in which Unisys will resell Mercury Interactive products through its worldwide sales operation.

Through this agreement, Unisys will offer Mercury Interactive's testing tools to its clients as part of its Year 2000 portfolio of solutions, giving users the added assurance of successful, trouble-free deployment of applications and solutions in the Year 2000.

"Unisys has an impressive client base that includes some of the largest banking institutions and government agencies worldwide," said Harry Boysen, director of channel sales at Mercury Interactive. "By teaming with Mercury Interactive, these customers will have access to market-leading automated testing solutions to help achieve maximum performance and smooth deployment of their enterprise systems."

"Unisys continues to extend its portfolio of year 2000 solutions for the service and product markets," said Susan Thomas, worldwide program director for Unisys TEAM2000. "Mercury Interactive's testing solutions enable the integration of automated techniques to speed repeatable tasks and provide reusable test assets."

Mercury Interactive provides a family of enterprise software testing solutions. The solutions include: integrated test management tools that organize and manage the testing process to determine application readiness; functional testing tools that ensure enterprise applications and their interfaces work flawlessly the first time and remain reliable; and load testing tools that test and predict system behavior and performance under real-life conditions in order to identify and isolate problems before deployment.

Mercury Interactive's product family includes:

-- TestDirector: An integrated management tool for organizing and

managing the testing process to determine application readiness

-- WinRunner and XRunner: Enterprise functional testing tools which

verify that Windows and X-Windows applications work as expected

the first time and remain reliable

-- LoadRunner: A load testing tool that predicts system behavior and

performance by exercising an entire enterprise infrastructure. It

emulates thousands of users to isolate problems, optimize

performance and accelerate deployment

-- QuickTest: A family of business process testing tools designed to

be employed by end-users with limited technical experience

-- TestSuite: A set of product suites aimed at the enterprise and

specific markets, including ERP, Y2K and the new Euro-currency

testing challenge

-- Astra: A family of E-Business testing tools that address Web site

management and load testing.

About Mercury Interactive Corporation

Mercury Interactive (www.merc-int.com) is the worldwide leader in enterprise application testing solutions. The company offers a comprehensive line of automated tools that address the full range of quality needs for testing client/server, e-business, Year 2000, Euro and packaged applications. Its testing solutions enable corporations, system integrators and independent software vendors to identify software errors more quickly and efficiently than traditional methods allow.

Mercury Interactive has its headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif., and maintains offices throughout the United States and internationally with a network of distributors throughout the world. The company's common stock trades on the Nasdaq National Market tier of The Nasdaq Stock Market under the symbol MERQ.

About Unisys

Unisys (NYSE:UIS), is more than 33,000 employees helping customers in 100 countries apply information technology to solve their business problems. Unisys solutions are based on a broad portfolio of global information services including systems integration, outsourcing, "repeatable" application solutions, consulting, network integration, remote network management, and multivendor maintenance and support, coupled with enterprise-class servers and associated middleware, software and storage.

Repeatable solutions are focused on key vertical markets including financial services, transportation, telecommunications, government, publishing and other commercial markets. Headquartered in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, in the Greater Philadelphia area, Unisys 1997 annual revenue was $6.6 billion. Access the Unisys home page on the World Wide Web http://www.unisys.com for further information.

Note to Editors: WinRunner, LoadRunner, TestDirector, XRunner and TestSuite are registered trademarks and QuickTest and Astra are trademarks of Mercury Interactive Corporation, Sunnyvale, California. Other product and company names are used herein for identification purposes only, and may be trademarks of their respective companies.