United Advertising Publications Selects Marimba to Distribute and Manage Software

Marimba, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRBA), the Software Change-Management Company, today announced that UK-based United Advertising Publications (UAP), has selected Marimba's Desktop/Mobile Management products to manage its IT operations more efficiently. These Marimba(R) products are being used to distribute software to UAP's PC environment at its Poole headquarters and across 14 national sales offices.

Prior to the installation, UAP's IT department manually upgraded and managed software for its main office. However, a recent increase in the number of remote PCs signaled a need for a more efficient application deployment process for its local and national offices. Having conducted an extensive evaluation of leading software change management solutions, UAP chose Marimba for its ease of use and unobtrusive approach towards application delivery, including the light impact it had on the UAP network.

Steve Barker, IT director at United Advertising Publications, commented, "Thanks to Marimba, we have streamlined the management of software upgrades and have benefited from some cost and resource savings. There was no need to employ more staff to handle our expanding IT administration needs. The software upgrades are now managed remotely and at the touch of a button, so there is no disruption to the end user. As a result, my team no longer needs to spend time and money traveling to dispersed sites to handle IT administration tasks."

Barker added, "From pre-sales through implementation, my technical team has been very impressed by both the solution and the support offered by the highly experienced Marimba team. This is likely to be one of the best investments that the IT department has made."

Adrian Rayner, Marimba's general manager of European sales and operations, commented, "Trying to keep up with IT administration is an ongoing issue for all IT departments. But when this function is manually performed, the process becomes resource-intensive and expensive. Marimba addresses these problems by automating the software change management process. This dynamic approach allows companies like UAP to focus on their core business activities including the delivery of high quality publications rather than having to spend unnecessary time managing IT administration."

UAP is a wholly owned subsidiary of United Business Media plc. From 22 locations around the UK, it produces magazines and Web sites serving a diverse range of trading markets. UAP prints almost 1,000,000 magazines a week -- all designed to help businesses and individuals buy and sell products and services.

ABOUT MARIMBA

Marimba, Inc., the Software Change-Management Company, is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. Marimba's Desktop/Mobile Management, Server Change Management, and Embedded Management product families allow Global 2000 companies to better manage their IT resources, increase operational efficiency and reduce IT costs. Additional information is available at www.marimba.com.

This press release contains forward-looking information within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and is subject to the safe harbors created by these sections. These forward-looking statements include UAP's planned use of Marimba's Desktop/Mobile Management products to automate UAP's software distribution process and management and to reduce IT administrative costs; certain other technical and performance benefits UAP expects to achieve with Marimba's Desktop/Mobile Management products; and the expectation that UAP will make Marimba's products part of its standard infrastructure. Those results are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, including the remaining time and effort required to complete UAP's deployment, which could be greater than expected; technical challenges specific to UAP's deployment that could impact whether UAP is able to achieve expected benefits with Marimba's products; and other business factors particular to UAP and Marimba which could impact whether UAP continues to use Marimba's products in the future. Actual results may differ materially due to these and other factors. The matters discussed in this press release also involve risks and uncertainties described from time to time in Marimba's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In particular, see the Risk Factors described in Marimba's most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, each as may be updated or amended. Marimba assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking information contained in this press release.

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