Symphoniq Corporation Appoints Richard Rudolph Vice President of Worldwide Sales

PALO ALTO, Calif., April 7, 2005 — Symphoniq™ Corporation, a new company created by the founders of NetIQ to manage the Web application infrastructure, today announced the appointment of Richard Rudolph to the position of vice president of worldwide sales.

Mr. Rudolph brings almost 20 years of experience in developing the market for Web application management tools. Before joining Symphoniq, Mr. Rudolph was vice president of worldwide sales for Keynote Systems. Prior to that, Mr. Rudolph successfully led sales operations at webHancer and at WebTrends, a division of NetIQ.

"Rich Rudolph brings to Symphoniq experience that will be instrumental in developing the market for real-time, user-centric Web application management tools," said Hon Wong, President of Symphoniq Corporation. "We are excited about the opportunities this appointment opens to us in terms of both sales and partnerships."

"The Web application management space is changing significantly as sites grow in size and complexity, and as the Web is increasingly used for mission-critical enterprise applications," said Mr. Rudolph. "Symphoniq changes the nature of managing the Web application infrastructure to make IT more effective and efficient. I look forward to bringing this new approach to a broad market."

About Symphoniq Corporation

Symphoniq Corporation (www.symphoniq.com) created the patent-pending TRUE™ (The Real User Experience) monitoring technology to track real responses times from the browser to the back-end. Symphoniq's TrueView product suite simplifies the complexity of managing Web applications and services. Based on the TRUE technology, TrueView analyzes end-to-end performance, making it easy to find and fix problems and bottlenecks. Since 1990, Symphoniq's executive team has delivered innovative solutions for managing enterprise environments, first by founding EcoSystems, then NetIQ (NASDAQ:NTIQ). Leading companies from Fortune 500 to Web 2.0 use TrueView to rapidly diagnose Web disruptions, plan Web infrastructure improvements, reduce operational costs and improve customer satisfaction.

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