Good Technology Selects Opsware for IT Automation; Leader in Wireless Handheld Computing Software and Services to Use Opsware Automation Across Servers and Network Devices

Business Wire, March 15, 2005

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Opsware Inc. (NASDAQ:OPSW), the leading provider of IT automation and utility computing software, today announced that Good Technology, the leader in wireless handheld computing software and service, selected Opsware to manage its application infrastructure. Good Technology will leverage Opsware automation to manage the lifecycle of critical applications and their underlying components, including servers, network devices and software. Good Technology selected Opsware in a highly competitive and comprehensive review process for its product superiority and proven ROI.

Good Technology's products extend mission-critical enterprise applications to mobile employees. The company's GoodLink and GoodAccess products are combined enterprise software and service that run on a variety of devices and networks, freeing customers from vendor lock-in, and allowing maximum flexibility. With customers depending on these systems, Good requires a solution that can seamlessly scale across their entire environment. Opsware will serve as the global solution for customer facing applications, running across hundreds of servers and network devices.

"We conducted a highly thorough evaluation of several products and Opsware was the only IT automation solution that could rapidly and effectively scale to meet our needs across servers, network devices and applications," said Danny Shader, president and CEO of Good Technology. "Opsware is committed to delivering a comprehensive automation platform, as demonstrated by their technology superiority and ability to jointly manage servers and network devices, which is critical to the way we run our applications."

"Forward thinking enterprises such as Good are choosing Opsware to streamline management of their applications across their entire underlying infrastructure," said Ben Horowitz, president and CEO of Opsware Inc. "Good provides the industry's leading software and service for wireless handheld devices, and their ability to quickly update applications and adjust capacity is critical. Opsware automation will be a key component in delivering highly scalable applications to meet their customer demands."

About Opsware Inc. (NASDAQ:OPSW)

Opsware Inc. is the world's leading IT automation and utility computing software company. The growth of the Internet is driving a shift from client/server computing to Web architecture. With this shift comes an overwhelming proliferation of servers, networking devices and applications, creating massive complexity that makes an automated IT model a necessity. Opsware automates the complete IT lifecycle and delivers utility computing by enabling IT to automatically provision, patch, configure, secure, change, scale, audit, recover, consolidate, migrate, and reallocate servers, network devices and applications. Over 280 of the world's largest companies, outsourcers and government agencies use Opsware to deliver this new, automated model of IT. For more information on Opsware Inc., please visit our Web site at www.opsware.com.

About Good Technology

Good Technology is the leader in wireless handheld computing software and service, using industry standards to provide the corporate applications enterprises need on the handhelds they choose over the networks they prefer. The company's GoodAccess and GoodLink products extend mission-critical enterprise applications--including Microsoft Exchange, Oracle, salesforce.com and Siebel--to mobile employees when and where they need them, using end-to-end AES encrypted, FIPS 140-2 certified security, and cradle-free, real-time synchronization. GoodLink and GoodAccess are combined enterprise software and service that run on a variety of devices and networks, freeing customers from vendor lock-in, and allowing maximum flexibility. Good Technology is located in Santa Clara, California. For more information call 1-866-7-BEGOOD and select the option for sales, e-mail sales@good.com or visit www.good.com.

Opsware is a service mark and trademark of Opsware Inc. All other product names, service marks, and trademarks mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective owners.

This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding the benefits and capabilities of our software products. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from these statements, including the risk that the assumptions underlying our current business strategy may change, that our experience operating as a software company is limited, and that the products may not perform as described. More information about these and other factors that could affect our business and financial results is included in our Form 10-K filed with the SEC on April 15, 2004 under the headings "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" and the Forms 10-Q and 8-K that we file during the fiscal year.