Quest Software Offers Competitive Upgrade to Quest Foglight; Quest Foglight Provides a Proactive Approach to Application Performance Management For a Lower Price

Business Wire, June 20, 2005

IRVINE, Calif. -- Quest Software Inc. (Nasdaq:QSFT), a leading provider of application, database and Windows management solutions, today announced a special competitive upgrade promotion that allows users to replace BMC Patrol with Quest Foglight(R), an end-to-end performance monitoring product for enterprise applications. This limited-time offer gives customers the opportunity to upgrade to Quest Software's powerful technology that delivers flexibility and deep application-centric functionality, at a lower price point.

Customers are looking for application management vendors that are not only committed to growth and development, but that also provide products that offer a proactive approach to managing applications and databases. Quest Software fulfills these requirements and offers Foglight, giving organizations a proven alternative, while saving them money.

"Our goal was to improve the performance and viability of our critical ERP systems," said Ziaul Mannan, senior technical DBA, Yale New Haven Health System. "Having a user-friendly product, in which custom agents are easily implemented is critically important for managing and maintaining vital hospital applications."

"Quest Software is deeply committed to the enterprise application management market," said Larry Humphries, vice president, application management solutions, Quest Software. "We are proud to offer this new promotion to customers because it gives them solutions that are backed by a technologically strong, growing company, while enabling them to get more value from their critical enterprise applications."

By mapping business objectives to both system and application-specific performance information across every tier of the application stack, Foglight measures and improves the performance of packaged and custom applications. Using domain-specific knowledge, Foglight collects data from every tier of the application - end-user, application server, database, operating system, Web server and network - to provide a complete picture of performance and reduce the time it takes to find and fix a problem.

Through Sept. 30, 2005, qualified BMC Patrol customers can obtain Foglight at a significant savings, compared to competitive pricing. The Quest professional services organization has developed a methodology to preserve the integrity of corporate information in the Patrol system to facilitate the transition. To take advantage of this opportunity, please visit: http://www.quest.com/landing/foglight_upgrade.asp.> About Quest Application Management Solutions

Quest Software's proven application management products help organizations get more performance from both packaged ERP and custom J2EE Web applications. Covering the entire application lifecycle, Quest delivers innovative products that provide code quality and optimization, performance and availability, and change and configuration management. Quest Application Management solutions help IT reliably manage their application infrastructure and access the information required to make informed business decisions while supporting business goals.

About Quest Software Inc.

Quest Software Inc. delivers innovative products that help organizations get more performance and productivity from their applications, databases and infrastructure. Through a deep expertise in IT operations and a continued focus on what works best, Quest helps more than 18,000 customers worldwide meet higher expectations for enterprise IT. Quest Software, with headquarters in Irvine, can be found in offices around the globe and at www.quest.com.

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