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April 19, 2008 - Bangalore – Quest Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: QSFT) announced today that it has received editor’s choice awards from two popular IT industry publications. First, IOUG (Independent Oracle Users Group) SELECT Journal honored Steven Feuerstein, Oracle PL/SQL specialist for Quest, with the 2008 SELECT Journal Editor's Choice Award for his two-part article series, "Six Simples Steps to High Quality Coding.” Second, Service Provider Weekly selected Quest's Benchmark Factory 4.7.1, a database workload simulation and scalability testing tool, as a winner for the Editor's Choice Award 2008 for proficiency and performance.
“Quest has been a thought leader in the database management area for several years, thanks to talented & passionate people like Steven Feuerstein. During his visit to India in October 2007, Steven spoke a lot about high quality coding and how India could lead the ‘Quality Revolution’ in coding in the next several years. Quest India is delighted to continue to playing its part in helping our customers move to higher code quality”, says Krishnan Thyagarajan, MD, Quest Software, India. “In addition, Benchmark Factory's undeniable success as a scalability testing tool gives database administrators and IT managers the confidence that their database will always perform optimally, even under stressful conditions.”
Steven Feuerstein has more than 26 years of experience and has written ten books on PL/SQL, including “Oracle PL/SQL Programming” and “Oracle PL/SQL Best Practices.” After reviewing all of the IOUG SELECT Journal articles from the past year, the publication’s editorial board chose Feuerstein as the one author who demonstrated the most excellence in a technical article.
Benchmark Factory 4.7.1 stress tests environments by simulating users and transactions on the database. In addition, the product has the capabilities to analyze and report on key statistical information in a real-time setting. Service Provider Weekly named Benchmark Factory one of its Editor’s Choice products for 2008, touting the solution’s ability to work with almost any database environment. The publication also highlights the product’s ability to carry out important user load tests without the need to hire specialized personnel, an important benefit for IT departments with limited resources. The entire review can be found at: http://www.spweekly.com/issue1007.pdf.
About Quest Software, Inc.
Quest Software, Inc., a leading enterprise systems management vendor, delivers innovative products that help organizations get more performance and productivity from their applications, databases, Windows infrastructure and virtual environments. Through a deep expertise in IT operations and a continued focus on what works best, Quest helps more than 90,000 customers worldwide meet higher expectations for enterprise IT. Quest provides customers with client management as well as server and desktop virtualization solutions through its subsidiaries, ScriptLogic, Vizioncore and Provision Networks. Quest helps organizations deliver, manage and control complex database environments through award-winning products for Oracle, SQL Server, IBM DB2, Sybase and MySQL. Quest Software can be found in offices around the globe and at www.quest.com.
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