Mercury Interactive
Mercury (formerly Mercury Interactive Corporation) is part of the HP Software Division. Mercury offered software for application management, application delivery, change and configuration management, service-oriented architecture, change request, quality assurance, and IT governance.
History
In 1989, Amnon Landan and Arye Finegold founded Mercury Interactive Corporation. The company was based in California and had offices located around the world. It also had a large R&D facility in Yehud, Israel.
On 25 July 2006, Hewlett-Packard announced that it would pay approximately $4.5 billion to acquire Mercury Interactive, offering to pay $52 a share.
On 7 November 2006, Mercury Interactive formally became part of HP. The Mercury Interactive products are now sold by HP Software Division.
Mercury Interactive legacy products were integrated and sold as part of the HP IT Management Software portfolio from the HP Software Division.
Acquisitions
From 2000 until its HP acquisition in 2006, Mercury purchased several software companies: