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CollabNet Joins Mercury BTO Ecosystem as Elite Alliance Partner, Supports Comprehensive Approach to Application Lifecycle Management; Distributed Software Development Solution Integrates with Mercury BTO Enterprise

Business Wire, Oct 11, 2005

BRISBANE, Calif. -- CollabNet, the leading provider of on-demand (SaaS) distributed software development solutions, today announced that the company has been selected as a member of the Mercury BTO (Business Technology Optimization) partner ecosystem. Membership is based on CollabNet's shared lifecycle approach and solution integration with Mercury(TM) BTO Enterprise. The CollabNet Connector to Mercury TestDirector has also been validated as an Elite Connection.

Mercury BTO Enterprise helps govern and manage IT and optimize application quality, performance, and availability. CollabNet Enterprise Edition 4.0 integrates tools for software development, project management, knowledge management, and communication management in an on-demand Web-based software development environment.

"The software development industry has entered a new era in which applications are collaboratively developed and deployed by decentralized teams over the Internet. By partnering with Mercury, CollabNet helps these geographically distributed testing and development teams seamlessly work together to efficiently track and resolve defects across the application lifecycle," said Bill Portelli, President & CEO, CollabNet. "With reduced lifecycle development and testing costs and faster time to market, companies can better serve the needs of their customers and partners in this interconnected world."

The recently announced CollabNet Enterprise Edition 4.0 integrates directly with Mercury TestDirector through the CollabNet Connector Suite and allows testing and development teams to work together more efficiently when tracking and resolving defects across systems. The CollabNet Connector gathers defects from TestDirector and synchronizes them with the CollabNet environment, allowing members of the testing team to seamlessly pass defects to the software development team. Test plans created in Mercury TestDirector can also be version controlled using CollabNet Subversion, the leading solution for distributed version control on the Internet.

About Mercury

Mercury Interactive Corporation (NASDAQ: MERQE), the global leader in business technology optimization (BTO) software, is committed to helping customers optimize the business value of information technology. Founded in 1989, Mercury conducts business worldwide and is one of the fastest growing enterprise software companies today. Mercury provides software and services for IT Governance, Application Delivery, and Application Management. Customers worldwide rely on Mercury offerings to govern the priorities, processes and people of IT and test and manage the quality and performance of business-critical applications. Mercury BTO offerings are complemented by technologies and services from global business partners. For more information, please visit www.mercury.com

About CollabNet Enterprise Edition

CollabNet Enterprise Edition, the leading solution for distributed application lifecycle management and software development, integrates tools for software development, project management, knowledge management, and communication management in an on-demand Web-based software development environment. With Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery, CollabNet securely provisions the most sensitive source code and other intellectual property for leading financial services, telecommunications, information technology, and government software development projects. CollabNet Enterprise Edition is available on demand, anywhere, anytime. For more information, see http://www.collab.net/products/enterprise_edtion.html.> About CollabNet

CollabNet is the world's leading provider of solutions for on-demand collaborative development that enable globally distributed teams of software developers to complete software projects on-time, on-target, and on-budget. Using CollabNet, software teams can collaborate on development across multiple locations within the extended enterprise or securely integrate business partners, contractors, or offshore development firms. CollabNet enables companies to reduce costs and increase revenues by eliminating the inefficiencies and limitations of traditional LAN-based development platforms.

CollabNet solutions dynamically align and aggregate people, projects, and processes by automating communication, cooperation, and coordination across the distributed application development lifecycle. The CollabNet environment is being used by hundreds of thousands of developers at global 2000 and industry-leading enterprise companies around the world. For more information, see http://www.collab.net/.> CollabNet is a trademark or registered trademark of CollabNet, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective holders.