Analyst Report Names Opsware as Fastest Growing Server Provisioning Software Vendor in 2005

Business Wire, Sept 5, 2006

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- In a recent market report (1) analyst firm IDC identified Opsware Inc. (NASDAQ:OPSW) as the fastest growing of the leading vendors in the worldwide server provisioning software market for the period 2004-2005, in terms of software revenue. According to IDC, the server provisioning software market is centered on the deployment, configuration, and management of server system and application software. Opsware was identified as number one in year-to-year revenue growth in this market at 64.9%, and number two in market share, with 22% in 2005.

Key market drivers include compliance reporting, change and configuration management, data center consolidation and the opportunity to lower IT costs through process standardization.

"IT departments are increasingly turning to data center automation solutions for tasks such as server provisioning and configuration management as a key part of their strategy to reduce costs and deal with labor shortages," according to Stephen Elliot, research manager, enterprise systems management software, IDC.

In the category of server provisioning software, IDC includes configuration management, patch software management and change audit/reporting applications.

"The latest analysis from IDC shows that Opsware is by far the fastest growing provider of server provisioning software," said Ben Horowitz, chief executive officer, Opsware Inc. "This is a clear indication of the tremendous ROI that customers are receiving from implementing Opsware's Server Automation System."

(1) Worldwide Server Provisioning Software 2006-2010 Forecast and 2005 Vendor Shares, IDC Report # 203227, August, 2006.

About Opsware Inc. (NASDAQ:OPSW)

Opsware Inc. is the world's leading IT Automation 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 automated IT operations a necessity. Opsware automates the complete IT lifecycle and enables IT to automatically discover, provision, patch, configure, secure, change, scale, audit, recover, consolidate, migrate, and reallocate servers, network devices and applications. Over 350 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.

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