Cadence Design Systems Selects Opsware for Global IT Automation; Billi

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    SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 28, 2005--Opsware Inc. (Nasdaq:OPSW), the leading provider of IT automation and utility computing software, today announced that Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NYSE:CDN)(Nasdaq:CDN), one of the world's leading global suppliers of electronic design technologies and engineering services, has selected Opsware as its global Information Technology (IT) lifecycle automation solution. With thousands of systems operating in a distributed environment that spans 11 facilities across the globe, Opsware automation will be leveraged to manage the operating system lifecycle of internal development environments and facilitate Cadence's standardization of development platforms. Cadence selected Opsware in a highly competitive and comprehensive review process.
    Cadence products and services are used to accelerate and manage the design of semiconductors, computer systems, networking equipment, telecommunications equipment, consumer electronics, and other electronics based products. With disparate systems operating in a coordinated fashion in multiple locations across the globe, Cadence required a solution that could seamlessly scale across their environment. Opsware will serve as the global solution for standardizing OS platforms in an automated fashion, running on thousands of servers and workstations operating across multiple data centers and remote locations.
    "Following an exhaustive evaluation process, we selected the Opsware System as it was the IT automation solution that has been demonstrated to work across complex, distributed environments and could effectively scale to meet our needs," said Sheryl Sweazey-Root director of IT for Cadence Design Systems. "Opsware is committed to delivering a comprehensive automation platform, as demonstrated by their technology superiority in Linux automation, provisioning on-demand, and configuration management capabilities, all of which are critical to our infrastructure requirements."
    "This win further demonstrates the scope and scale of enterprise organizations choosing Opsware IT automation," said Ben Horowitz, president and CEO of Opsware Inc. "Cadence operates a highly complex, heterogeneous environment, and their ability to quickly update their applications and adjust capacity is critical. We are delighted to be helping them deliver rapidly changing, highly scalable applications to meet customer demands."

    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 and applications, creating massive complexity that makes an automated IT model a necessity. The Opsware System 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 and applications. Over 250 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.

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CONTACT: Opsware Inc. Zenobia Austin, 408-212-5220 (Press) zenobia@opsware.com Ken Tinsley, 408-212-5241 (Investors) ktinsley@opsware.com or Barokas PR Karli Overmeier, 206-344-3132 (Press) karli@barokas.com

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