惠普公司以45亿美元买下软件测试工具厂商——Mercury

In a deal valued at $4.5 billion, HP today announced it has agreed to acquire Mercury Interactive Corp., bringing the value of the HP Software business to more than $2 billion in annual revenue, the company said.

“HP’s software strategy is to be the clear leader in end-to-end enterprise IT management and help our customers tightly align IT priorities with changing business requirements,” Thomas E. Hogan, senior vice president of software at HP, said in a statement. This vision will be achieved through the combination of HP’s OpenView IT management software and Mercury’s BTO (Business Technology Optimization) Enterprise software.

Still to be answered are such questions as what happens to Mercury’s myriad partners, and whether HP, which has acquired software in the past only to abandon it later on, can make the deal work.

Mercury Interactive Corp., 介绍：

Mercury公司作为业界最大的提供企业级软件测试工具和服务的厂商，始终致力于为企业关键业务与软件系统开发提供测试管理、功能性测试与回归测试、负载性能测试与分析等的企业级解决方案。在2004年IDC的开放式平台测试工具统计报告中，Mercury公司的测试产品市场占有率为55.6%。

    Mercury Quality Center 产品提供了基于Web的系统，用于在广泛的IT系统和应用环境下执行质量保证。它包含一套基于角色的集成应用程序和最佳实践，以及开放式、可伸缩、可扩展的基础架构。Quality Center设计用于对关键质量活动进行优化和自动化，包括要求、测试和故障管理、功能测试以及业务流程测试。

 

    Mercury Performance Center 产品率先提供了优化应用程序性能的生命周期方法。这是唯一用于 Performance Centers of Excellence 的解决方案，其范围涵盖了从基于项目的性能测试到 24x7 全局可访问解决方案。 

    Mercury BTO Enterprise 产品能够帮助企业优化IT投资，提升IT系统性能，增大其信息化建设的投资回报率，而且使IT建设和投资与根本的业务目标统一起来，改进IT质量管理系统，最终实现以更低成本转送更高质量应用软件的目标。