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SEGUE SOFTWARE TO DISTRIBUTE PERFORMIX LOAD TESTING TOOLS

Strategic Alliance Offers Broad Automated Testing Solution with Best-of-Breed Products

NEWTON CENTRE, MA and McLEAN, VA -- October 30, 1995 -- Segue Software, Inc., and Performix, Inc., today announced a distribution agreement allowing Segue to distribute Performix's family of load testing software products worldwide. Segue's direct sales force in the United States and international distributors will sell the Performix line of load testing tools as complementary products to Segue's QA PartnerŪ and QA Planner™ family of cross-platform software quality tools.

Customers can use QA Partner to generate automatic client/server load testing across the network, offering a single testing solution for both regression and load testing. Through Segue's Open QA Architecture, customers can create powerful test scripts using QA Partner's point-and-click recording capability, and then execute these tests to drive Performix's software to simulate the load across the network. These scripts will be managed within QA Planner, allowing customers to re-use the load test scripts and even run them automatically in off-hours.

"With the addition of Performix tools to our product offerings, customers seeking integrated software quality solutions can go to a single supplier for the best product solution in both categories," said Elisabeth Elterman, Segue's president and chief executive officer. "Software testing and development professionals can use QA Partner and QA Planner to build and manage scripts to test the quality of their software applications and to drive Performix software to simulate the load of the application across the network."

"As automated testing becomes a standard component of client/server application development, companies want the technical superiority of best-of-breed products and the convenience of a single testing solution," said Jeff Straathof, president of Performix. "With this strategic agreement, Segue can offer its customers the best technology available as well as "one-stop-shopping" for both regression and load testing."

Performix's load testing software determines the behavior of an application in multi-user mode before deployment, enabling companies to be proactive, competitive, and prepared for the future. Performix load testing products for client/server, X-Windows, and character applications are available for many types of architecture from simple, character applications to complex, multi-tier, client/server superstructures. The Performix family of products has been used to test thousands of applications on a vast array of computer hardware. The tools support all major databases, operating systems, networks, application development tools, and other testing products.

Separately, Performix announced October 19, 1995, the signing of a definitive agreement to be acquired by Pure Software, Inc. The distribution agreement between Performix and Segue will survive this acquisition. Both Pure Software and Segue are dedicated to providing their customers with a broad spectrum of software quality tools.

Founded in 1987, Performix develops, markets, and supports its software for companies developing medium-to-large, mission-critical applications. All of the premier hardware and database vendors rely on Performix to measure and improve their products, and to demonstrate their applications' capacity to thrive under heavy user load. The pioneer in load testing, Performix was the first company to release a client/server load testing product and the first company to develop load testing software for X-Windows. Today, Performix is a privately held and funded company with sales and support offices across the United States and in Europe.

Segue Software develops, markets and supports the QA Partner and QA Planner line of testing products, which enables the rapid development and re-use of automated software tests across more than 25 platforms. QA Partner is currently used by more than 6,000 software quality professionals worldwide. Headquartered in Newton Centre, Massachusetts, Segue also has offices in San Francisco and Dallas, and distribution offices throughout Europe and Australia. Segue's 80-plus employees provide automated testing products and consulting services to organizations developing client/server software applications. Segue Software offers corporate and product information through its World Wide Web site, located at http://www.segue.com/.

Contacts: 

Segue Software, Inc.	                Performix, Inc.
Chris Carroll, Carroll & Associates	Kim Dalinka
(508) 385-6050	                        (703) 448-6606
carrollpr@aol.com	                dalinka@performix.com

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and QA Planner is a trademark of Segue Software.

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