Mercury Interactive instance of business
Mercury Interactive Corporation was an Israeli company acquired by the HP Software Division. Mercury offered software for application management, application delivery, change and configuration management, service-oriented architecture, change request, quality assurance, and IT governance.History
In 1989, Zvi Schpizer, Ilan Kinriech and Arye Finegold founded Mercury Interactive Corporation.  The company was based in California and had offices located around the world. It also had a large R&D facility in Yehud, Israel.On 25 July 2006, Hewlett-Packard announced it would pay approximately $4.5 billion to acquire Mercury Interactive. In November, Mercury Interactive formally became part of HP. The Mercury Interactive products are now sold by HP Software Division.Mercury Interactive legacy products were integrated and sold as part of the HP IT Management Software portfolio from the HP Software Division.Most of the Mercury Interactive software assets were apportioned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) when HP split into two companies. In September 2017, HPE completed the sale of most of its software assets, including the legacy Mercury Interactive products to UK-based Micro Focus.
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