Keen Indian interest in Mercury tool

Mercury Interactive Corporation, the business technology optimisation (BTO) company has announced that India has seen the highest volume of trial downloads of Mercury's LoadRunner 8.0, an application performance testing solution.

Over 6,500 quality and performance assurance professionals around the globe have downloaded Mercury LoadRunner 8.0 in the first month of availability. Fifty one percent of the total number of downloads originated from India and China alone. India accounted for over one-third of all global downloads in this period.

Last month, the company released downloadable Mercury LoadRunner 8.0 as part of its strategy to expand the application delivery market worldwide and meet the demands of fast-growing markets such as India and China.

"This is a key milestone for Mercury in India and is testament that application delivery and automated testing are increasingly being recognised as a strategic and critical business imperative in this country," T Srinivasan, managing director of Mercury's India operations, said.

According to Srinivasan, these results indicate that IT professionals in India recognise the opportunity to extend their knowledge and skills around application quality and performance.

For over 15 years, Mercury has helped thousands of customers optimise application quality and performance. Gartner ranks Mercury as the market leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for distributed testing. According to IDC, Mercury is the undisputed leader in application delivery with more than 55 per cent market share, more than double its nearest competitor.

"There is a huge demand for automated testing products and a thirst for knowledge from quality and performance engineers in India and China. The rising volume in outsourcing and compliance issues has led companies to take a strategic approach to optimizing application delivery across the entire application quality ecosystem," Theresa Lanowitz, research director at Gartner, Inc., said.

According to Rajesh Radhakrishnan, senior director of product marketing at Mercury, "The application delivery market has emerged as one of the most strategic areas of information technology investments. Testing application performance across the lifecycle is an imperative because any downtime or application problems that occur in production can literally cripple a business. The thousands of Mercury LoadRunner 8.0 downloads in India is a strong indicator of Mercury's application delivery leadership worldwide."

Mercury's trial

• India, China account for 51% trial downloads of Mercury
• 6,500 professionals download software withing one month of its availability
• Mercury ranked market leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for distributed testing