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Computerworld - ... application development orbit. According to Christopher Lochhead, chief marketing officer at Mercury Interactive Corp., the Mountain View, Calif.-based company's LoadRunner application stress-testing tool should be fully integrated into SAP AG's NetWeaver application development and integration suite by Q2. That means programmers working with NetWeaver will get to run LoadRunner's tests, at no extra cost, to determine how well their applications will perform under ever-increasing workloads. Although SAP paid Mercury to port LoadRunner to NetWeaver, Lochhead insists this isn't simply work for hire. He expects the deal to increase adoption of NetWeaver and Mercury's other testing tools. Mercury saw a 144% increase in sales of its J2EE application-testing software last year, Lochhead claims. Most of the sales were for IBM's WebSphere and BEA Systems Inc.'s WebLogic product lines. But, he says, NetWeaver is gaining ground.
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... daily in a flash while keeping an eye on compliance issues. So promises Rani Merritt, senior vice president at ArcSight Inc. in Cupertino, Calif. She claims that ArcSight's Enterprise Security Manager software can sift through more than 100 million security alerts from network devices in a single day and, in real time, determine which alarms you need to care about. Later this year, the company will deliver prepackaged agents for Oracle Financials to help users oversee their adherence to regulations. For example, ArcSight plans to ship in May an agent designed to help health care providers stay in line with the data privacy mandates of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. In Q3, it plans to add an agent that supports compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Merritt also hinted at another possible ArcSight event in 2005 -- the company's initial public offering.
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Christopher Lochhead, chief marketing officer at Mercury Interactive Corp.

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