Mercury Interactive's LoadRunner Selected by Multex.com to Optimise Web

Added: (Thu Nov 23 2000)

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Mercury Interactive's LoadRunner Selected by Multex.com to Optimise Web
Performance

Camberley, UK - 23rd November, 2000 - Mercury Interactive, the leading
provider of web performance management solutions, has announced that
Multex.com, Inc., the Internet's leading financial e-marketplace, connecting
buyers and sellers of financial services, has selected LoadRunner® to test
the scalability of its own websites, as well as the many sites it develops
and hosts for clients.

"Financial service providers such as Multex.com have some of the most
demanding Web applications on the market, and view load testing as core to
providing their users with the best experience possible," said Kevin
Francis, European Field Market Manager for Mercury Interactive. "With
LoadRunner, the industry's leading Web load testing solution, Multex.com can
exercise their sites under heavy loads, to get essential information needed
to fix performance bottlenecks in the system before they impact customers."

"The majority of our clients are making mission-critical decisions based on
information provided by Multex.com, so performance is crucial," said John
Mahoney, chief technology officer at Multex.com. "Multex.com's suite of
websites, which are accessed by more than 3.6 million individuals, integrate
over two million research reports with fundamental information and
estimates. Multex.com adds new content and new users daily, so we rely on
LoadRunner to ensure that our websites perform optimally. By using
LoadRunner to frequently measure the performance of our sites, we can
optimise them to deliver the best possible user experience, even during peak
load times."

Load Testing Helps Preserve Competitive Advantage
Site performance is a critical element in preserving an organisation's
competitive advantage and ensuring a positive experience for all end users.
Since the volume of users and traffic levels continuously change, load
testing to ensure scalability is an essential step in deploying an
e-business application.

Mercury Interactive's LoadRunner helps predict system behaviour and
performance by exercising an e-business application to pinpoint performance
bottlenecks. LoadRunner emulates the traffic of real users, to drive the
application with real transactions while measuring response times, network
delays and both server and application performance. Integrated real-time
monitors enable organisations to minimise test cycles, optimise performance
and accelerate deployment.

About Multex.com
Multex.com, Inc. (www.multex.com) is the Internet's leading financial
e-marketplace connecting buyers and sellers of financial services.
Multex.com is a global company that provides proprietary content, commerce,
community and technology to the major financial marketplace participants:
brokerage firms, investment banks, corporations, and individual and
institutional investors. The company focuses on three core business areas:
Institutional (Business-to-Business), which provides real-time, web-based
financial applications and information to institutional investors and other
financial institutions; Application Service Provider (ASP), which develops,
hosts and operates websites sites and portals for financial institutions,
enabling them to connect to their clients; and Individual
(Business-to-Consumer), which provides financial applications and
information to individual investors through a network of branded and
affiliate websites.

Multex.com serves this fast-growing and diverse marketplace through a number
of industry leading brands, including: MultexNET®, a
subscription/transaction based, real-time, online service providing
financial information from more than 750 firms such as Merrill Lynch,
Salomon Smith Barney and RS Investment Management to more than 10,000
buy-side firms and over 35,000 subscribers; MultexEXPRESSSM, a
web-development and hosting business with more than 100 sites serving over
2.0 million users; BuzzPower, industry leading e-community software; and
Multex Investor, Sage Online and Market Guide, Multex.com's individual
investor sites, which have attracted more than 3.6 million members and
regular users. Multex.com has more than 500 information and distribution
partners including: Reuters, Bloomberg, Dow Jones, AOL, Yahoo!, Quicken.com,
CBS MarketWatch and CNNfn.com.

About Mercury Interactive
Mercury Interactive is the leading provider of Web performance management
solutions which help E-Businesses deliver application performance,
reliability and a positive user experience for competitive advantage. The
company's performance management products and hosted services are open and
integrated to best test and monitor business-critical Web applications. More
than 10,000 B2B and B2C E-Businesses, ISPs, ASPs, systems integrators, and
consultants use Mercury Interactive solutions. Mercury Interactive is
headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and has 40 offices Worldwide, with
its UK HQ in Camberley, Surrey. More at www.mercuryinteractive.co.uk.

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This press release includes forward-looking statements based on our current
expectations and projections about future events. These forward-looking
statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions
about Multex.com that could cause actual results to differ materially from
those in such forward-looking statements. These risks are described in
Multex.com's most recently filed prospectus with the Securities and Exchange
Commission. Multex.com undertake no obligation to update the forward-looking
statements contained in this press release.

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LoadRunner is a registered trademark of Mercury Interactive Corporation,
Sunnyvale, California. Product and company names are used herein for
identification purposes only, and may be trademarks of their respective
companies.

For further information:
Fiona Tutton
Mercury Interactive (UK) Ltd.
410 Frimley Business Park
Camberley
Surrey
GU16 7ST, UK
Tel: +44 1276 808200
Fax: +44 1276 29134
E-mail: ftutton@mercury-eur.com
Web site: www.mercuryinteractive.co.uk

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