Heroix Longitude Named 2008 Community Choice Award Finalist by Windows IT Pro

Braintree, MA - May 16, 2008 - Heroix, a leading provider of agentless application performance and network monitoring software, today announced its Longitude software is a finalist in the Exchange Server Monitoring Tools category for the 2008 Community Choice Awards given by Penton Media's Windows IT Pro®. Longitude enables IT organizations to improve application and network performance as well as monitor service level agreements (SLAs), without requiring software to be installed on each server. Windows ITPro readers and web site visitors are encouraged to vote online by 11:45 PM MST on May 23, 2008.

"We are pleased to be named a finalist by Windows IT Pro magazine," said Rick Lane, President of Heroix. "The nomination of Longitude for this Windows IT Pro award reflects years of experience in helping IT organizations maintain high levels of service for Microsoft Exchange. Longitude assists lean IT staffs in coping with complex information technology environments and fluctuating Exchange workloads using agentless application performance and network monitoring."

Longitude takes an agentless approach to reporting, alerting, automated corrective action, SLA monitoring and user experience monitoring for applications, servers, IT infrastructure, networks, and SNMP devices. Longitude's streamlined architecture and Web-based user interface provide performance monitoring that is both broad and deep, without requiring any software installation on the monitored computers.

Longitude's built-in monitoring solutions for Exchange 2000, 2003, and 2007 capture years of real world experience in all sizes and types of operating environments. In addition to monitoring basic resources such as CPU, memory, disk space, and I/O on Exchange servers, Longitude detects issues with Exchange folders, mailboxes, queues, RPC, services, and tracking logs. Simple deployment, event consolidation and correlation, and automated corrective action help ensure optimal performance and maximum availability of Exchange and other mission critical applications with minimal effort.

Heroix offers a 14-day free trial of Longitude as well as an online Flash demo. Longitude may be purchased online at www.heroix.com/store. Please consult the Longitude pricing page or call 800-229-6500 for Longitude pricing.

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 Arrowsight, Fallon Clinic, Kaiser Permanente, Honeywell, Tembec, Motorola, Inc., and Young Broadcasting.