About Quest , Inc. Quest Software, Inc., a leader in application, and infrastructure management, provides software to simplify IT management for 18,000 customers worldwide, including 75 percent of the Fortune 500. Quest products for application performance management, database management and infrastructure management help customers develop, deploy, manage and maintain enterprise applications without expensive downtime or business interruption.

Quest offers comprehensive product families surrounding today’s leading applications and the underlying that support them. Our solutions cover the spectrum, managing the industry’s most popular databases from Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MySQL and Sybase; managing business-critical applications including Oracle, Siebel, PeopleSoft, SAP and Java/.NET; and simplifying the management of , Exchange and Windows, as well as integrating Linux and Unix into the managed environment.

Quest Software is based in Irvine, California and has offices around the globe. For more information, please visit www.quest.com.

Corporate Communications Contacts: Erin Jones Director, corporate communications Corporate +1 949-754-8032 [email protected]

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Quest Software Fact Sheet

Mission: To provide application, database and infrastructure management solutions that help customers develop, deploy, manage and maintain the IT enterprise without expensive downtime or business interruption.

Headquarters: 8001 Irvine Center Drive Irvine, CA 92618 Tel: 949-754-8000 Fax: 949-754-8999 Email: [email protected]

EMEA Headquarters: The Priory Stomp Road Burnham Bucks SL1 7LS +44 (0) 1628 601000

Annual Revenues: 2004 $389M - 28% growth from 2003 2003 $304M - 19% growth from 2002 2002 $258M - 5% growth from 2001 2001 $245M - 48% growth from 2000 2000 $167M - 134% growth from 1999 1999 $ 71M - 100% growth from 1998 1998 $ 35M - 90% growth from 1997

Year Founded: 1987

IPO: August 1999

Nasdaq Ticker Symbol: QSFT

No. of Employees: Over 2,400

Executives: Vincent C. Smith, chairman & CEO Doug Garn, President Michael Lambert, CFO Brinkley Morse, senior vice president, business development

Key Awards & Recognition: Earned 11 Readers’ Choice Awards By SQL Server Magazine (Sept. 2005)

Readers’ Choice Award, Exchange Migration Wizard By Windows IT Pro (Sept. 2005)

Best of TechEd Europe 2005, Quest Central for SQL Server and MessageStats By Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine (August 2005)

At TechEd, Quest won several product awards including Best of Tech-Ed, Peoples’ Choice and Target Awards By Windows IT Pro, MSD2D.com and W2Knews (June 2005)

Quest Software named MySQL Partner of the Year By MySQL (April 2005)

Won two Jolt Productivity Awards, for Oracle and JProbe By Software Development Magazine (March 2005)

Best Server Migration Product, Quest Migration Suite for Active Directory and Exchange; Best Migration Product, Migration Manager for Active Directory By Redmond Magazine (January 2005)

Quest Software earned the #12 spot in the DM 100. This is up from #24 in 2003. By DM Review Magazine (December 2004)

Quest Software selected 2004 Global Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Partner of the Year By Microsoft (July 2004)