CA's Wily Technology Division Deploys Firepond Configure-Price-Quote OnDemand for AppExchange; Automate the Quote Process, Create a Real-Time Repository for Pricing Data

Business Wire, Sept 12, 2006

NEWTON, Mass -- FP Technology, Inc. (OTCBB:FPTI), doing business as Firepond, announced today that CA's Wily Technology Division will deploy Firepond CPQ(TM) OnDemand version 3.0, integrated with Salesforce to manage their worldwide pricing and quoting processes.

Wily is the market-leading provider of enterprise application management solutions. By providing end-to-end visibility into customer transactions in real-time, Wily's products enable companies to success fully manage the health and availability of their critical Web applications and infrastructure.

Bill Santo, FP Technology's CEO, said "The Wily deployment allowed Firepond to demonstrate its flexibility in handling advanced requirements in a multi-tenant, on demand application without the need for custom coding. Firepond CPQ OnDemand was able to accommodate Wily's need for rule-driven quote decisions by importing required data from the salesforce.com application and collecting data from the user.

About Wily Technology

Wily is the market-leading provider of Enterprise Application Management solutions. By providing end-to-end visibility into customer transactions in real-time, Wily's products enable companies to successfully manage the health and availability of their critical Web applications and infrastructure. Wily's collaborative management approach allows enterprises to rapidly detect and diagnose application slowdowns and failures, and better assess the impact of application performance on business success. This means better customer service, more stable revenue streams, and higher IT productivity. Wily Technology is a division of CA's Business Service Optimization (BSO) unit, which offers leading systems for service, asset, change and portfolio management and provides a comprehensive framework for delivery of world-class IT services. To learn more about CA's Wily Technology Division, visit http://www.wilytech.com or call 1 888 GET WILY.

About FP Technology

FP Technology, doing business as Firepond, is a leading provider of multi-tenant, OnDemand CPQ(TM), or Configure, Price, Quote software that automates and simplifies product pricing and configuration for companies and helps these enterprises improve order accuracy while reducing their cost of sales. Firepond's sales solutions help companies to optimize their sales processes whether their need is to solve complex product or pricing configuration, create product catalogs or provide an interactive selling system and dramatically improve response time. Firepond solutions provide a rapid ROI through improved order accuracy (nearly 100% of submitted orders have accurate specifications and pricing), improved proposal generation time and high user acceptance. For additional information about Firepond, visit www.firepond.com or call 1-866-UCONFIG (826-6344).

Firepond is a trademark of FP Technology, Inc. CPQ is a trademark of FP Technology, Inc. Other names used may be trademarks of their respective owners. Salesforce.com is a registered trademark of salesforce.com, Inc., San Francisco, California. Other names used may be trademarks of their respective owners.