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HP acquires Mercury Interactive
News HP announced on Tuesday that it will acquire management software company Mercury Interactive for $52 a share, or $4.5bn in cash. Mercury's stock was delisted from the Nasdaq earlier this year, and its shares trade on an over-the-counter market.
[July 26, 2006, 9:20]
Mercury Interactive Case Study: Abbey National plc
White Papers Abbey turned to Mercury Outsourced Performance Validation and Optimization Service from Mercury Performance Center. Mercury helped Abbey to improve system performance so that it could support 7,000 concurrent users from a starting point of 700 users.
[September 20, 2005, 0:00]
Mercury Interactive Case Study: University at Albany
White Papers The University Application Development (UAD) team enlisted help from Software Quality Solutions (SQS) to implement Mercury Performance Center core product Mercury LoadRunner for pre-deployment load testing.
[September 20, 2005, 0:00]
HP gives boost to business services
News HP stepped up its commitment to the emerging area of service-oriented architecture on Monday, announcing consulting and software that draw heavily on its acquisition of Mercury Interactive. Also on Monday, HP announced it has more closely...
[May 22, 2007, 10:37]
No slowdown in HP's software expansion quest
News HP has bought five companies in the past 16 months: Mercury Interactive, Opsware, SPI Dynamics, Bristol Technology and Peregrine. Easily the biggest was the purchase of Mercury Interactive in July last year.
[November 29, 2007, 13:25]
Best Practices for Testing Your eBusiness Applications
White Papers During this Web seminar, you will learn Siebel Systems' and Mercury Interactive's best practices for application testing which will enable your organization to increase project successes to measure, maximize and manage the performance of Siebel...
[October 9, 2009, 2:49]
Mercury to root out e-business problems
News Mercury Interactive is to launch a product which automatically diagnoses problems with e-commerce systems. Unlike root cause services from system management companies such as Tivoli and BMC, the Mercury offering diagnoses problems in the user...
[December 13, 2001, 17:17]
Aftermath unclear from S3-Diamond merger
News This could definitely work," said Mike Feibus, principal analyst at semiconductor watcher Mercury Research Inc.listing the possible strengths each company brings to the deal: "S3 is going down the path of integration and Diamond has already...
[June 23, 1999, 9:08]
Dose of Mercury leaves HP's vision blurry
News At $4.5bn (£2.29bn), HP's takeover of Mercury Interactive earlier this year was not only the biggest software acquisition in HP's history but "the biggest software acquisition for the entire industry" during 2006, according to Tom Hogan, HP's vice...
[December 12, 2006, 15:40]
Mercury to ship tuning product
News Israel-based software testing specialist Mercury Interactive is to launch a product to tune applications about to be deployed, the company said on Tuesday. Mercury already offers products and services for testing applications during development...
[May 28, 2002, 17:01]
Capacity Planning & Optimization of Your Infrastructure for a Siebel Rollout
White Papers Attend this webinar and learn about ProTune, a new solution from Mercury Interactive that can help you validate your Siebel infrastructure and tune it for optimal performance. Over 75 percent of ERP/CRM rollouts don't meet their initial performance...
[October 9, 2009, 2:49]
HP sees rise in profit and revenue
News Revenue from the company's PC group jumped 17 percent to $8.7bn in the quarter, and the software group's revenue increased 81 percent to $550m, buoyed by HP's acquisition of Mercury Interactive, the company said.
[February 21, 2007, 7:44]
Oracle-Siebel merger gets mixed reaction
News Some partners and customers of Siebel and Oracle, such as Mercury Interactive, applauded the move. Mercury uses Oracle's database technology but also serves customers of both Siebel and Oracle. He noted that as Oracle seeks to integrate Siebel's...
[September 13, 2005, 8:50]
HP puts faith in Software
News HP's intention to earn its stripes in the software business has been well-publicized, and its acquisition of Mercury Interactive for $4.5 billion (£2.3 billion) is seen as a major step in that direction.
[December 27, 2006, 9:44]
HP posts healthy fourth-quarter results
News HP's software business will look very different in upcoming quarters, as it folds in products from Mercury Interactive, which it officially acquired last week. Mercury will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary until early 2007, Hurd told financial...
[November 17, 2006, 8:20]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog He's been the technology columnist for the San Jose Mercury News for a decade -- in other words, the leading mainstream media commentator on Silicon Valley. Meanwhile, online media -- even our own fine site -- is still gradually edging its way...
[December 10, 2004, 16:40]
Performance Testing Inside and Outside the Firewall
White Papers Mercury Interactive's ProTune Validation Service provides the comprehensive validation testing coverage organizations need to launch their Web applications with confidence and verify the performance of their current systems.
[March 11, 2005, 2:00]
HP opens wallet for software acquisitions
News The company said the acquisition, following the $4.5bn purchase of Mercury Interactive one year ago, is part of HP's strategy of offering a comprehensive software line for managing corporate data centres.
[July 24, 2007, 8:01]
System Management Meltdown
Blog According to the IDC study (Western European Enterprise System Management Software Competitive Analysis and Vendor Shares), of the well-established vendors, HP did well and proved its commitment to its software offering with its acquisition of...
[September 6, 2007, 19:50]
Do developers really need social skills?
News I did have to explain to one recruiter the difference between Lode Runner, the classic arcade game, and LoadRunner, the automated testing tool produced by Mercury Interactive. The relaunched Builder.com has a new tag line: "Beyond the code.
[March 25, 2002, 11:53]
