Mercury announces BTO core technology acquisitions

BANGALORE: Mercury Interactive Corporation today announced it has acquired BeatBox Technologies (formerly ClickCadence LLC), a privately held company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Under the terms of the acquisition, which closed on September 1, 2005, Mercury will pay approximately $14 million in cash.

Mercury also announced it has acquired the m-Test wireless testing technology from Intuwave, a Mercury partner based in the United Kingdom.

Under the terms of the m-Test technology acquisition, which closed on July 26, 2005, Mercury paid cash and entered into certain licensing arrangements in exchange for specified intellectual property assets from Intuwave.

Intuwave developed m-Test technology to help automate the testing of wireless services and applications running on Symbian OS-based smart phones. Currently, customers can use m-Test in conjunction with Mercury QuickTest Professional and Mercury Business Process Testing to connect directly to a mobile device, such as a smart phone, to test and confirm how the device and its applications will perform.

m-Test has been used by device manufacturers and mobile network operators to help ensure the market-readiness of their wireless devices, wireless applications and services. Mercury plans to utilize m-Test technology to bolster the wireless testing capabilities of its Mercury Quality Center product.

"With the BeatBox and Intuwave technology acquisitions, we continue to execute on our strategy to deepen our core BTO technology and help customers optimize the business outcome of IT," said David Murphy, senior vice president of corporate development at Mercury.