Today, Mercury Interactive Corporation (OTC: MERQ), the global leader in business technology optimisation (BTO) software, announced that Oracle's Performance Group is using Mercury Application Delivery offerings: Mercury Quality Center(tm) and Mercury Performance Center(tm).

Oracle's Performance Group performs benchmarks and sets direction for product performance throughout the company. The group optimises performance across all Oracle products, including Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Applications. The Performance Group leverages Mercury's industry-leading Application Delivery offerings to help perform internal load testing, tuning and capacity planning for Oracle products.

"We recognised that Mercury is a leader in application delivery and saw that a large number of our biggest customers are successfully using Mercury BTO software to optimise the quality, performance, and availability of their Oracle environments, and we want our internal quality processes and results to match theirs," said Richard Sarwal, vice president, Server Applied Technology, Oracle. "We leverage Mercury Quality Center and Mercury Performance Center to help our applications perform to meet business objectives. We look forward to our continued work with Mercury for the benefit of our mutual customers."

"We are proud that Oracle selected Mercury offerings for their internal development teams," said Harry Gould, vice president of alliances, Mercury. "Our work will continue to help Oracle customers manage project risk, streamline the testing process, identify and resolve end-user performance and availability issues, and maximise production performance of their Oracle implementations."

More information on best practices for optimising the performance and quality of end-to-end business processes across Oracle applications will be available in a webinar jointly presented by Mercury and Oracle, titled Optimize Oracle Application Quality and Performance on Tuesday, April 20, 2006 at 10:00AM PDT. To register, please visit http://www.mercury.com/oraclewebinar.

MERCURY AND ORACLE
Mercury's relationship with Oracle spans nearly a decade, and to date, more than 1,000 companies have successfully used Mercury BTO software in conjunction with Oracle solutions to optimise the business outcomes of IT. As an Oracle Certified Partner, Mercury has developed a set of BTO software offerings specifically designed to help optimise the quality, performance and scalability of Oracle solutions. The companies work together to help ensure joint customers experience seamless interoperability between specific products from Mercury and Oracle.

ABOUT MERCURY
Mercury Interactive Corporation (OTC: MERQ), the global leader in business technology optimisation (BTO) software, is committed to helping customers optimise the business value of information technology. Founded in 1989, Mercury conducts business worldwide and is one of the largest 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 http://www.mercury.com.

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