The golden era of Mercury in the world of testing will be over soon. Now that Hewlett-Packard Co has closed its 4.5bn dollar acquisition of Mercury Interactive, as well as dropping the Mercury brand, it has said it will also ditch its well-known OpenView systems and network management brand.
You are going to see the gradual phase-out of both the Mercury and OpenView brands, said Tom Hogan, senior vice president of HP Software, told Computer Business Review. You will see that OpenView will be phased out gradually over time.
HP will retain some of product names of Mercury, for example its LoadRunner testing tool brand, while the Systinet repository that Mercury only recently acquired will be known as the HP Systinet Registry.
But he made it clear that although the company is phasing out the OpenView brand, it is not dumping the core systems and network management technologies that OpenView is famous for, simply to concentrate on testing, performance management, and IT governance products of Mercury.
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