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Opsware Inc. (NASDAQ: OPSW), the leading provider of Data Center Automation software, today announced a major update to its ground-breaking online subscription service for compliance and vulnerability management, The Opsware Network. Available immediately, The Opsware Network 2.0 includes thousands of additional security and compliance checks, as well as a new Opsware community element that provides a portal to community forums and projects and access to additional content available for download to the Opsware Data Center Automation suite. The industry�s only subscription service for automating software and content delivery to servers and network devices, The Opsware Network helps customers using Opsware�s Server and Network Automation Systems keep their IT infrastructure up-to-date with the latest vulnerability alerts and compliance policies. As new alerts and policies are issued, The Opsware Network automatically determines which of these are relevant to a customer�s specific environment, and then applies those updates dynamically to the vulnerable or non-compliant data center infrastructure. Opsware is the only vendor to offer such an automated and dynamic compliance and vulnerability management service. This automates what is otherwise a massive and lengthy manual task for many IT departments for whom it is otherwise prohibitively difficult and expensive to stay current. Traditionally, vulnerability management has been a manual process beginning with email notifications from the individual vendors whose products are used in a data center. Deciphering such emails from multiple vendors and determining whether or not they apply to a unique IT environment, which in a large organization might include many thousands of servers and network devices, can take days or even weeks, all the while leaving the environment in a vulnerable state. Furthermore, the remediation steps to fix these vulnerabilities are not always clear and notifying the appropriate parties can be challenging. The Opsware Network keeps customers informed and up-to-date by delivering actionable vulnerability alerts and compliance policies for Opsware�s software, ensuring that security and policy violations impacting the IT environment can be immediately rectified. The Opsware Network service consists of two components: The Opsware Network Subscription Service and The Opsware Network Community. The Opsware Network Subscription Service delivers critical vulnerability and compliance content to Opsware�s Server Automation System and Network Automation System. It establishes a direct link to customers, delivering late-breaking updates and remediation solutions that are applicable to their unique environment. The service helps ensure that vulnerable IT assets are quickly identified, the right parties are notified and necessary information is readily available to those who need it. The service also includes compliance policies for industry and regulatory standards such as PCI, HIPAA, SOX, and FISMA. More than 2,000 compliance checks have been added to the latest version of The Opsware Network. The Opsware Network Community is a portal to Opsware-delivered content that facilitates a cooperative environment across the Opsware user community. It delivers essential automation content across the Opsware product family, including industry-standard security best-practices policies for operating systems, network devices, and applications. Community users can monitor and contribute to user forums and submit projects to The Opsware Network Community. This open forum allows the users to share automation content and leverage the combined intelligence of the Opsware community. �Anyone who has ever managed enterprise initiatives like security and compliance understands that they require continuous maintenance and attention to detail,� said Tim Howes, CTO at Opsware Inc. �By distilling the onslaught of security updates that fill a typical IT manager�s inbox on a daily basis, and providing the tools to take action on those updates, The Opsware Network delivers valuable cost savings and peace of mind.� About Opsware Inc. (NASDAQ: OPSW) Opsware, the world�s leading IT automation company, unlocks the promise of technology by accelerating IT to zero latency. The company�s software, the Opsware System, automates the entire data center, from provisioning to patching, configuration to compliance and discovery to deployment, turning data center operations into a competitive advantage for business. Opsware�s technology is used by hundreds of companies worldwide including banks, service providers, retailers, manufacturers and Internet companies with IT environments ranging from hundreds to tens of thousands of servers, network devices, storage devices and IT processes. 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. This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding the benefits and capabilities of our software products. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from these statements, including the risk that the assumptions underlying our current business strategy may change, that our experience operating as a software company is limited, and that the products may not perform as described. More information about these and other factors that could affect our business are included in our Form 10-K filed with the SEC on April 14, 2006 under the headings �Risk Factors� and �Management�s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations� and the Forms 10-Q and 8-K that we file during the fiscal year. The determination of when the new automation capabilities described in this release will be made generally available, if ever, remains at the sole discretion of Opsware Inc.