Managed Objects Offers Lifeline Program to Mercury(TM) Customers; Limited-time Offer Provides No-Cost Alternative for Business Availability Clients

MCLEAN, Va.--Nov. 9, 2005--Mercury Interactive Corporation customers who are concerned about the company's recent senior management upheaval can rest easy as Managed Objects, the Business Service Management Company, today announced its Lifeline Program to give Mercury Interactive customers a smart choice for their Business Availability requirements.

The Managed Objects Lifeline Program is a compelling alternative for customers using Mercury solutions for Business Availability and Business Service Management. Managed Objects' solutions not only provide Mercury customers with a mechanism to manage the availability of business services, they also provide a foundation from which customers can address their broader Business Service Management (BSM) requirements.

Through the Lifeline Program, Mercury customers gain an attractive product license exchange offer for customers seeking Business Availability and broader Business Service Management solutions. The Lifeline Program will seek to exchange annual maintenance contracts for comparable licenses of Managed Objects' Business Service Management solutions.

Additionally, Managed Objects will provide at no cost, up to two days of consultative assessment in the development of a migration plan from Mercury to Managed Objects solutions. Customers can then choose to leverage the skills of Managed Objects' professional services organization for a nominal, one-time fee. The Lifeline Program's free assessment is a limited time offer expiring March 31, 2006. For more information on the Mercury Lifeline Program, please visit www.managedobjects.com/mercury-lifeline.

"We've been inundated with inquiries from Mercury customers concerned about the future of their application performance monitoring solutions," said Siki Giunta, Managed Objects President and CEO. "Customer delight has always been our top priority, as evidenced by our 100% maintenance renewals every year. We're excited to extend a 'lifeline' to the many Mercury clients seeking competitive product alternatives and superior service and support. Combined with our free professional services offer, Mercury clients can expect a transition that's seamless and cost-effective."

Managed Objects BSM architecture views servers, applications and networks as interrelated elements forming business service configurations that collectively deliver IT services crucial for business operations. This enables IT Services delivered to the business, such as e-mail, supply chain or online trading, to be monitored, managed, measured and communicated holistically and thereby more effectively. Whether clients need to find and resolve availability and/or performance problems, improve response time, manage the impact of change, or report service level metrics to the business, BSM enables Mercury customers to bridge from an application perspective to managed end-to-end service delivery.

About Managed Objects

Managed Objects is the Business Service Management Company. Business Service Management (BSM) aligns IT with the business by integrating network, system, application, end user, and business metric information into real-time business service dashboards. Through Managed Objects' BSM platform, companies effectively monitor, manage, and report on the services IT delivers to the business - services like online trading and e-commerce. Consistently acknowledged by the analyst community as best in class, Managed Objects has more BSM implementations in place than any other company. That is why AIB, Auchan, CSC, Credit Suisse, DISA, Fidelity Investments, JPMorganChase, NIH, Progress Energy, Reuters, TIAA-CREF and other global organizations rely on Managed Objects' BSM technology. For more information, visit www.managedobjects.com.