Rocket Software Releases Latest Version of NetCure™ Service Assurance Software; Package Improves Reporting, Operations Support, and Windows Server Management

Business Wire, August 22, 2005

NEWTON, Mass. -- Rocket Software (www.rocketsoftware.com), a Boston-based developer of Enterprise Infrastructure products, today released the latest version of its NetCure service-assurance software that provides powerful business-infrastructure and service assurance for enterprises and service providers. NetCure substantially reduces the time required to isolate, diagnose and resolve business infrastructure problems. The software also identifies potential performance degradation in applications and networks in advance, automatically notifying appropriate operations personnel or triggering corrective actions before business services are critically impacted.

"NetCure continues to evolve as an enterprise-class tool for management of large network environments from a business perspective," said Andy Youniss, CEO of Rocket Software. "NetCure offers a single package that provides unmatched functionality for fault and performance monitoring of applications, systems, servers, and networks."

NetCure boasts highly scalable, fast and continuous auto-discovery of devices in layer-2 through layer-7, and its patented intelligent multi-layer auto-discovery engine accurately and rapidly discovers applications, servers, systems, and network devices. NetCure discovers both physical and logical network topology including routers, switches, chassis, slot, port, interface and VLAN configurations. NetCure continuously monitors and detects any changes to the environment and automatically updates its topology model to reflect the changing environment. This latest NetCure release also has improved features for 24/7 operations centers, including event persistence, failover capability, event logging, and change auditing. In addition, NetCure has improved management capabilities for Microsoft Windows Server platforms. NetCure is available now on Windows 2000, Linux RedHat or SuSE, and Sun Solaris operating systems. To evaluate the product, please visit www.rocketsoftware.com/netcure.> About Rocket Software

Founded in 1990, Rocket Software is a global development firm that builds Enterprise Infrastructure products for the world's leading OEMs, networks and software companies. The company's current lines of business complement and extend strategic OEM offerings in the areas of enterprise and mobile security, relational databases, mobile and wireless computing, and operational support systems (OSS). Rocket's current OEM relationships and technology partners include IBM, RSA Security, Microsoft, NEC, and Toshiba. Rocket Software is based in Newton, Mass., and employs more than 200 people worldwide. For more information, visit www.rocketsoftware.com.