Mercury Interactive has optimization problem
This is a company that has been on a serious roll, growing revenue 35 percent in 2004 to more than $685 million. First quarter revenue for 2005 was $198.8 million for the first quarter of 2005, an increase of 27 percent compared from the first quarter of 2004. Second quarter revenue was $207 million, and third quarter revenue is projected above $200 million. The company is just in the process of shipping an integrated BTO suite the integrates its IT governance and application performance and management products.
The company is obviously taking a major market hit, but Zingale, who joined the company in December 2004, should be able to weather this storm. He was formerly president of Nortel Networks eBusiness Solutions Group and CEO of Clarify, which is now part of Computer Associates. However, now Mercury will have to work extra hard to prove to customers and Wall Street that the current "optimization" problem is not systemic and just a temporary blip that has been addressed...