Heroix Nominated for Linux Journal Editors' Choice Awards

Newton, MA - August 8, 2006 – Heroix, a leading provider of application performance monitoring software, today announced that its Longitude agentless monitoring software has been nominated for the Linux Journal Editors' Choice Awards in the Best Management or Administration Software category. This year's award winners will be announced in the December 2006 edition of Linux Journal. The awards recognize the best products in 28 hardware and software categories that have been launched during the current year as determined by its editorial team.

Launched in April 2006, Longitude V3 features an event correlation facility that helps customers understand the business impact of technology performance problems and reduce the time required to resolve them. Analyst Jasmine Noel of Ptak, Noel & Associates cited Heroix's achievement in "adding sophisticated features without making the solution more difficult to use".

Other features of V3 include:

• Advanced SLA Monitoring, which provides the ability to generate events and perform notifications and actions based on SLA state transitions.
• Baseline Workload Data to help users adjust factory threshold settings to different workloads within their environment.
• Scalable Notification & Actions, including email notification, SNMP trap notification, and automated corrective actions that can be defined for a single event or hundreds of events with one simple screen.
• Expanded Monitoring Coverage, including Cisco devices, Dell OpenManage, HP Systems Insight Manager, and SNMP device checking.

"Heroix is pleased to be nominated for the Linux Journal Editors' Choice Awards," said Heroix CEO and Founder Howard Reisman. "With Longitude, we have been able to capture the best of both worlds and deliver the comprehensiveness and robustness normally found in expensive, agent-based products, with the ease, simplicity and lower cost of agentless software."

Longitude V3 is available now. Heroix offers a 14-day free trial.

About Heroix

Heroix delivers award-winning software products that help organizations optimize the availability and performance of applications, databases, systems, and IT infrastructure running across multiple platforms. Today, with a presence in over 40 countries, Heroix has delivered performance management solutions to over 1,000 organizations worldwide, including Horizon Lines, Kaiser Permanente, Fallon Clinic, Honeywell, Tembec, Motorola, Inc., and Boston Sand & Gravel Company.