Macromedia and Mercury Announce Strategic Agreement to Optimize Rich Internet Applications.ANAHEIM, Calif. & MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Macromedia (Nasdaq:MACR MACR Macromedia (stock symbol) MACR Missing Air Crew Report MACR Major Accident Control Regulations (UK) MACR Monthly Arrest and Citation Register MACR Modified And Combinable REMIC ): --Mercury Application Delivery products will integrate with and support Macromedia Flex 2 product line --New relationship helps development teams optimize the quality and performance of rich Internet applications This is a list of rich Internet applications. They are organised by their use. Communication
Macromedia (Nasdaq:MACR) and Mercury Interactive For another company with a similar name, see Mercury Computer Systems. HP Mercury (formerly Mercury Interactive) is a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard that is a market leader in automated software quality assurance and offers products in other areas such as diagnostics, Corporation (Nasdaq:MERQE) today announced an agreement to integrate Mercury Quality Center(TM) and Mercury Performance Center(TM) products with the new Macromedia(R) Flex(TM) 2 product line. Mercury has licensed Flex technology to help deliver rich data visualization See information visualization. dashboards within future Mercury products. Macromedia has licensed Mercury Quality Center and Mercury Performance Center products for use in the development and deployment of its Flex product line. The integrated Macromedia and Mercury offerings will help joint customers optimize both the quality and performance of rich Internet applications. "Macromedia is committed to providing best-of-class technology for building more effective end-user experiences," said David Mendels, general manager, Macromedia. "Integrating the Macromedia Flex 2 product line with Mercury Application Delivery offerings will allow Flex development teams to harness the industry's leading quality management automation software products for a more consistent, engaging, and responsive end-user experience." "High quality experience applications are critical in delivering the right business outcomes from IT," said Christopher Lochhead, chief marketing officer, Mercury. "We are excited to work with Macromedia to help our joint customers optimize the quality and performance of their rich Internet applications developed with the Macromedia Flex product line." For functional testing (testing) functional testing - (Or "black-box testing", "closed-box testing") The application of test data derived from the specified functional requirements without regard to the final program structure. , quality assurance teams will be able to use Mercury QuickTest Professional(TM), part of Mercury Quality Center, to create effective, object-oriented test scripts and play them back on each build of the application. Full Flex component object recognition and property testing allows these teams to reliably record and play back tests that validate the Flex application An interactive application based on Adobe's Flash technology. See Flex. is running as expected. Integrations with Mercury LoadRunner(R), part of Mercury Performance Center, will help support performance testing Performance Testing covers a broad range of engineering or functional evaluations where a material, product, or system is not specified by detailed material or component specifications: Rather, emphasis is on the final measurable performance characteristics. of Flex applications, whether the applications integrate with back-end data using XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. , SOAP web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. , or the Macromedia AMF AMF ACE (Allied Command, Europe) Mobile Force AMF Autorité des Marchés Financiers (French) AMF Action Message Format AMF Arab Monetary Fund AMF Asian Monetary Fund AMF Autocrine Motility Factor binary protocol A binary protocol is a protocol which is intended or expected to be read by a machine rather than a human being, as opposed to a plain text protocol such as IRC, SMTP, or HTTP. Binary protocols have the advantage of terseness, which translates into speed of transmission and interpretation. . Mercury Quality Center allows customers to automate software quality management across a wide range of application environments, provide visibility of quality projects, and align the priorities of quality assurance professionals with the requirements of the business. Mercury Performance Center allows customers to automate application load testing and helps verify that applications will meet business performance requirements. The Flex 2 product line and Macromedia Flash(R) Player 8.5 are the foundation for building effective rich Internet applications that blend the responsiveness of desktop software, the cross-platform reach of the web, and the breathtaking expressiveness of the Flash Platform. Flash Player is currently installed on over 600 million desktops and mobile devices globally. Mercury Quality Center integration will be licensed as part of the Flex Enterprise Services 2 product offering. Flex Builder(TM) 2, the new Eclipse-based development environment for the Flex Framework, integrates with a wide variety of application life cycle offerings, including Ant, CVS (1) (Concurrent Versions System) A version control system for Unix that was initially developed as a series of shell scripts in the mid-1980s. CVS maintains the changes between one source code version and another and stores all the changes in one file. , FlexUnit, and Mercury Quality Center. Flex developers can now implement best development practices in their toolset of choice. The integration will be delivered with the Flex 2 product line and upcoming versions of Mercury QuickTest Professional and Mercury LoadRunner products. Developers can download public alpha versions of Flex Builder 2 and Flash Player 8.5 on Macromedia Labs (announced today; see separate release) at http://www.macromedia.com/go/mmlabs and Mercury QuickTest Professional at http://www.quicktestpro.com. ABOUT MACROMEDIA Experience matters. Macromedia is motivated by the belief that great experiences build great businesses. Our software empowers millions of business users, developers, and designers to create and deliver effective, compelling, and memorable experiences -- on the Internet, on fixed media, on wireless, and on digital devices. ABOUT MERCURY Mercury Interactive Corporation (NASDAQ:MERQE), the global leader in business technology optimization Business Technology Optimization (BTO), is an enterprise software product category focused on helping businesses ensure that every dollar invested in information technology, every resource allocated, and every application in development or production meets business goals. (BTO BTO British Trust for Ornithology BTO Business Technology Optimization BTO Bachman Turner Overdrive (band) BTO Business Transformation Outsourcing BTO Build-Transfer-Operate BTO Brutto (German: Gross [quantity]) ) software, is committed to helping customers optimize 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 www.mercury.com Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains "forward-looking statements" under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995 that involve risks and uncertainties concerning Mercury's future product and service offerings. Mercury's actual product and service plans and results may differ materially from the forward-looking statements made by, or on behalf of, Mercury. The potential risks and uncertainties include, among other things: 1) the timing of the availability of Mercury products, services, product enhancements and service enhancements; 2) the failure of Mercury products, services, product enhancements and service enhancements to meet customers' expectations, needs or perform as described; 3) the dependence of Mercury's financial growth on the continued success and acceptance of its existing and new software products and services, and the success of its BTO strategy; 4) the incorporation of third-party technologies into our products; 5) intense competition for Mercury's products and services; and 6) the additional risks and important factors described in Mercury's SEC reports, including the Annual Report to Stockholders on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. for fiscal year ended December 31, 2004, and the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. for the fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2005, which are available at the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. All of the information in this press release is made as of the date of this press release, and Mercury undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statements. Copyright 2005 Macromedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Macromedia, the Macromedia logo, Macromedia Flash, Macromedia Flex, and Macromedia Flex Builder are trademarks or registered trademarks of Macromedia, Inc., which may be registered in the United States and internationally. Other product or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners. |
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