Quest Software Provides Staples Heterogeneous Database Management with Quest Central Product Line

Business Wire, March 4, 2003

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 4, 2003

Quest Software Inc. (Nasdaq:QSFT), a leading provider of application management solutions, today announced that Staples Inc. is using Quest Central(TM) to help manage its heterogeneous database environment.

With a growing database environment Staples' database administrators (DBAs) were finding it increasingly difficult to manage daily maintenance tasks on all of their databases (Oracle, DB2 UDB and SQL Server). To efficiently manage a range of data, from human resources, to financials, to marketing and promotional data, Staples required a database management product that could scale and help the DBA staff manage their entire heterogeneous environment.

Staples selected Quest Software's Quest Central product based on its single console approach to managing all types of databases to help maintain high service levels for Staples' end-users.

"We are confident that we will maximize our DBA productivity and be able to effectively manage our data environment growth with Quest Central," said Dan Berry, senior manager of the DBA group at Staples.

"Quest Software is the only company we found that is working toward providing a single toolset to manage and maintain Oracle, DB2 and SQL Server databases. Quest Software will play a key part in helping us optimize the performance of our IT infrastructure."

"We are extremely pleased with the productivity improvements our customers are able to gain using Quest Central," said Charles Ramsey, vice president of marketing at Quest.

"The benefit of the Quest Central solution is its versatility through cross-platform support. Its functionality is both broad and deep. We truly help customers enhance the productivity of their IT staff by allowing DBAs to accomplish multiple tasks with a single product."

About Quest Central

Quest Software's Quest Central is designed to simplify the database administrator's daily tasks and increase their efficiency, while lowering the total cost of ownership of the company's critical applications. The Quest Central workbench for DB2 and Oracle integrates four functional components: Database Administration, Performance Diagnostics, SQL Tuning and Space Management.

About Quest Software Inc.

Quest Software is a leading provider of application management solutions. Quest provides customers with Application Confidence(SM) by delivering reliable software products to develop, deploy, manage and maintain enterprise applications without expensive downtime or business interruption.

Targeting high availability, monitoring, database management and Microsoft infrastructure management, Quest products increase the performance and uptime of business-critical applications and enable IT professionals to achieve more with fewer resources. The company has headquarters in Irvine and has offices around the globe. For more information on Quest Software visit www.quest.com.