Oracle Acquire e-TEST Suite

Month Date, 2008: Oracle has announced the acquisition of Empirix’s e-TEST suite of web application testing software.

The Californian based Oracle has entered into an agreement with Empirix to acquire it’s e-TEST suite of products. Empirix is known for its voice and web application testing and monitoring solutions, designed around the principles of efficiency and low cost. Once finalised, the e-TEST suite will be incorporated into Oracle Enterprise Manager and Oracle Real Application Testing.

“Application testing is becoming increasingly important as customers seek to deploy applications faster, at a lower cost and with higher quality of service,” said Leng Leng Tan, Oracle Vice President, Applications and Systems Management. “Customers are looking for automated application testing solutions that help prevent costly application performance problems, avoid unplanned outages of business-critical applications, and automate the manual steps involved in application testing.”

Larry Timm, general manager of the web business unit at Empirix believe the two companies have a shared committment to provide industry-leading, standards-based offerings focusing on Web and SOA application development.

“We are excited that Oracle is adding the e-TEST suite to the Oracle Enterprise Manager portfolio and believe that customers and partners will benefit from being better able to deploy performance-optimized applications," said Timm.

The deal is still subject to closing conditions and currently the web application business is still a part of Empirix untill this finalises.

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