Compuware Announces Comprehensive Strategy for Supporting the Microsoft .NET Platform

Teams with Microsoft to Deliver Professional Services, Products for Developing, Testing and Managing Microsoft .NET Applications

LOS ANGELES. -- October 22, 2001 -- Compuware Corporation (Nasdaq: CPWR) announced today at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (booth # 121) a comprehensive strategy for supporting the Microsoft .NET platform. This strategy, which encompasses Compuware's professional services and products, is designed to provide the staffing expertise and products to help IT organizations develop and deploy reliable, scalable and high performing Microsoft .NET applications. As a Microsoft Global Partner, Compuware will team with Microsoft to provide these products and services to enterprise accounts worldwide.

"Major enterprises are adopting the Microsoft .NET platform to develop and deploy XML Web services and enterprise applications," said Tom Button, vice president of developer tools at Microsoft Corp. "Compuware is uniquely positioned to deliver the staffing and products to enable these enterprises to accelerate the development of reliable and scalable Microsoft .NET applications."

The Compuware Professional Services organization has already begun assisting enterprises with the development of Microsoft .NET applications. As part of its partnership with Microsoft, over 100 professional services staff have undergone training on the Microsoft .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET with hundreds more scheduled to follow. This training enables Compuware staff to rapidly design and develop Web services applications.

"Compuware has always focused on the development of vital business applications for our customers," said Alan Cantrell, Senior Vice President, Professional Services Division, Compuware Corporation. "The Microsoft .NET platform is a powerful technology, and we are committed to helping our customers successfully develop and deploy enterprise applications using this platform."

"We are using the Microsoft .NET framework and Visual Studio .NET to develop a new generation of e-business applications," said Patrice St-Amour, Marketing Director of the Montreal Canadiens. "We are relying on Compuware's extensive expertise with enterprise application development for the development of our web services applications."

Compuware is extending its development, testing, production readiness and performance management products to support Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, the .NET Framework and the .NET Enterprise Servers. As part of this strategy, numerous Compuware products will be integrated into Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. Compuware DevPartner Studio will be extended to provide code analysis, error detection, profiling and coverage analysis for .NET applications. Additionally, Compuware DevPartnerDB will enable developers to build, test and monitor stored procedures. Compuware QACenter will be engineered to allow for test management and functional testing of .NET applications. Enhancements will also be made to Compuware QACenter Performance Edition so that it will validate that XML Web services and Microsoft .NET applications can scale and perform to business requirements before these services are implemented with mission critical applications. Compuware's performance management and availability solutions, enhanced for .NET with support for SOAP and XML, will enable operations teams to effectively manage distributed applications in production with performance metrics gathered from the network and Microsoft .NET enterprise servers.

Compuware will be previewing some of these products at the Microsoft Professional Developer's Conference. Products to be previewed include DevPartner Code Review, which analyzes Visual Basic source code and includes over 60 rules for migration Visual Basic code to Visual Basic .NET; the DevPartner Profiler for analyzing Microsoft .NET applications developed using VB .NET, C# and ASP .NET; DevPartnerDB Debugger for Oracle; Visual Studio Edition for analyzing and debugging PL/SQL from within Microsoft Visual Studio .NET; TestPartner for reliability testing and QALoad for stress testing applications.

"We are very excited about the Microsoft .NET platform and its ability to develop enterprise applications and XML Web services," said Kevin Cowsill, Senior Vice President, Technology, Compuware Corporation. "We will continue to work closely with Microsoft to ensure that our products fully support the Microsoft .NET platform and that our customers can deploy applications that are reliable, scalable and available."

Compuware Corporation

Compuware Corporation, a multi-billion dollar company, provides business value through software and professional services that optimize productivity and reduce costs across the application life cycle. Meeting the rapidly changing needs of businesses of all sizes, Compuware's market-leading solutions improve the quality, ease the integration and enhance the performance of distributed, e-business and enterprise software. Compuware employs approximately 13,000 information technology professionals worldwide. For more information about Compuware, please contact the corporate offices at 800-521-9353. You may also visit Compuware on the World Wide Web at http://www.compuware.com.