Year 2000 Wire/Next Millenium to Distribute Mercury Interactive's Year 2000 Testing Solution in Canada.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 24, 1998--Mercury Interactive Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :MERQ MERQ Mercury Interactive Corp (stock symbol) ), the world's leading provider of testing tools for client/server, Web and packaged applications, today announced a partnership with Next Millenium, Inc. for the distribution of Mercury Interactive's TestSuite 2000 in Canada. Next Millenium, Inc. is a leading distributor of Year 2000 tools, services and methodologies for mainframe, AS/400, client/server and PC environments in Canada and Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. . TestSuite 2000 is an integrated testing solution for mainframe, AS/400, client/server and Web applications throughout the enterprise. TestSuite 2000 is comprised of Mercury Interactive's WinRunner 2000 for automated regression testing In software development, testing a program that has been modified in order to ensure that additional bugs have not been introduced. When a program is enhanced, testing is often done only on the new features. , TestDirector for test management, and TestBytes for test data generation. Each tool works side by side to help IT organizations solve the Year 2000 problem Year 2000 problem, Y2K problem, or millennium bug, in computer science, a design flaw in the hardware or software of a computer that caused erroneous results when working with dates beyond Dec. 31, 1999. . "The Canadian marketplace demands Year 2000 testing solutions that can accelerate the conversion process and help corporations maximize the number of applications successfully converted by the deadline," said George Byrne George Robert Byrne (28 May 1892 - 23 June 1973) was an English cricketer: a right-handed batsman and right arm medium-pace bowler who played 12 times in first-class cricket, playing for both Warwickshire and Worcestershire. , vice president of sales and general manager of Next Millenium, Inc. "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, is the runaway leader in the automated testing (testing) automated testing - Software testing assisted with software tools that require no operator input, analysis, or evaluation. tools market and the only vendor with a complete testing solution for the range of applications that coexist in corporate IT." With just one-tenth of the population of the United States, it is estimated that the Year 2000 problem in Canada will cost corporations over $12 billion to fix, according to a recently published report by the Year 2000 taskforce, set up by the Canadian Federal Government to keep Canadian businesses abreast of the Year 2000 problem. "The time is ticking for IT organizations around the globe to reach Year 2000 compliance and the Canadian marketplace is no exception," said Mark Boullie, vice president of channel sales at Mercury Interactive. "Our partnership with Next Millenium extends our reach to large enterprise customers in Canada who need testing solutions for the Year 2000 and beyond." About Next Millenium, Inc. Next Millenium, Inc. based in Toronto, Ontario, is a leading distributor of Year 2000 inventory, scan/impact analysis, conversion and testing tools, services and methodologies for mainframe, AS/400, client/server and PC environments. Next Millenium services the Canadian, Mexican, Caribbean, Central and South American markets with its "best of breed" products. Next Millenium clients include GE Capital Technology Management Service, Dominion Insurance of Canada, Canadian Depository for Securities The Canadian Depository for Securities Ltd. (CDS Limited) is the holding company for three operating subsidiaries: CDS Clearing and Depository Services Inc. CDS INC. CDS Innovations Inc. CDS Clearing and Depository Services Inc. , Solcorp Insurance Software Solutions Corp., Midland Walwyn Capital, Inc. and AASKI Technologies LTD LTD 1 Laron-type dwarfism 2 Leukotriene D 3 Long-term depression, see there 4. Long-term disability . About Mercury Interactive Corporation Mercury Interactive is the worldwide leader in automated client/server testing tools. The company offers a comprehensive line of automated enterprise testing tools that address the full range of quality needs for testing clients, servers, Web sites and systems as a whole, enabling corporate developers, system integrators and independent software vendors to identify software errors more quickly and efficiently than traditional methods allow. Mercury Interactive has its headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif., and maintains offices throughout the United States and internationally with a network of distributors throughout the world. The company's common stock trades on the Nasdaq National Market tier of The Nasdaq Stock Market Nasdaq stock market The first electronic stock market listing over 5000 companies. The Nasdaq stock market comprises two separate markets, namely the Nasdaq National Market, which trades large, active securities and the Nasdaq Smallcap Market that trades emerging growth companies. under the symbol MERQ. -0- Editor's Note: Mercury Interactive Corporation is located at 1325 Borregas Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94089 and can be reached by phone at 408/822-5200 or fax at 408/822-5300 . Mercury Interactive's Web site is located at www.merc-int.com. 1998 Mercury Interactive Corporation, Sunnyvale, Calif. WinRunner is a registered trademark and TestDirector and TestBytes are trademarks of Mercury Interactive Corporation. Product and company names are used herein for identification purposes only, and may be trademarks of their respective companies. CONTACT: Mercury Interactive Anne Lenaghan, 408/822-5223 anne@merc-int.com or Evans Communications Cathy Wright, 650/595-1871 cwright279@aol.com |
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