Opsware Wins InfoWorld 2005 Technology of the Year Award; Network Auto

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    SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 9, 2005--Opsware Inc. (Nasdaq:OPSW), the leading provider of IT automation and utility computing software, today announced that Opsware TrueControl 3.0 has been awarded InfoWorld's 2005 Technology of the Year Award in the Best Network Management Solution category. TrueControl is among a select group of products to receive the award, recognizing products that promise to make the greatest impact on enterprise IT strategies. The Opsware TrueControl network automation product, combined with Opsware's leading server automation, provides IT with the most comprehensive IT automation solution available today.
    TrueControl is the leading network automation product, with deployments across a broad range of vertical markets including financial service institutions, government agencies and telecommunications companies. TrueControl tracks and regulates changes -- in real-time -- across routers, switches, firewalls, and load balancers to provide greater accountability and insight for network changes, thereby assisting in compliance with regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley and dramatically reducing downtime and increasing the security of a company's IT organization.
    In hands-on testing by InfoWorld, TrueControl received top honors as "feature-rich, broad in scope, and excelling at change management and reporting." InfoWorld praised the network device automation capabilities stating, "TrueControl is the most complete solution among the three tested."
    "Innovation trumps consolidation," said Steve Fox, InfoWorld's editor-in-chief. "InfoWorld's annual Technology of the Year awards highlight the value of more powerful systems, more flexible storage, richer networks, more elegant applications, smoother integration, automated management, and granular security. The real winners are the organizations implementing these technologies."
    "InfoWorld's Technology of the Year award is a highly credible third party endorsement based on a real world lab installation of the TrueControl network automation product that closely resembles a typical customer deployment," said Tim Howes, CTO of Opsware. "The award validates our decision to incorporate TrueControl into Opsware's suite of IT automation solutions, and combined with our leading server automation, gives us a commanding lead in this market."

    About Opsware Inc. (Nasdaq:OPSW)

    Opsware Inc. is the world's leading IT automation and utility computing software company. The growth of the Internet is driving a shift from client/server computing to Web architecture. With this shift comes an overwhelming proliferation of servers, networking devices and applications, creating massive complexity that makes an automated IT model a necessity. Opsware automates the complete IT lifecycle and delivers utility computing by enabling IT to automatically provision, patch, configure, secure, change, scale, audit, recover, consolidate, migrate, and reallocate servers, network devices and applications. Over 280 of the world's largest companies, outsourcers and government agencies use Opsware to deliver this new, automated model of IT. For more information on Opsware Inc., please visit our Web site at www.opsware.com.

    Opsware is a service mark and trademark of Opsware Inc. All other product names, service marks, and trademarks mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective owners.

    This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding the capabilities and anticipated benefits of our network automation product. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from these statements, including the risk that our experience operating as a software company is limited, that there is unproven demand for our Opsware automation software, that we are not successful in integrating Rendition's employees and operations, that we are unable to realize the anticipated benefits and synergies of the transaction, and that we may not release our software products on time and that these products may not perform as described or as hoped. More information about these and other factors that could affect our business and financial results is included in our Form 10-K filed with the SEC on April 15, 2004 under the headings "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" and the Forms 10-Q and 8-K that we file during the fiscal year.

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CONTACT: Opsware Inc. Zenobia Austin, 408-212-5220 (Public Relations) zenobia@opsware.com Ken Tinsley, 408-212-5241 (Investor Relations) ktinsley@opsware.com or Barokas Public Relations Karli Overmier, 206-344-3132 (Public Relations) karli@barokas.com

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