PowerTest Ranked High in Bay Area

PowerTest Named One of the San Francisco Bay Area's Fastest-Growing Privately Held Companies

San Francisco, California - November 1, 2000 - PowerTest, a privately held software quality assurance consulting and professional services company, has been ranked 15th out of 150 of the fastest-growing companies in the Bay Area by the San Francisco Business Times. The San Francisco Business Times' Top 150 Fastest-Growing Private Companies, published on October 27, 2000, is a list of the established and emerging Bay Area companies powering the new economy.

"We are honored to be a part of the Fastest-Growing Private Companies list," commented Tom Lynch, president and founder of PowerTest. "PowerTest has continuously focused on providing the highest level of customer service in our performance management, software quality assurance, and testing services. We have grown tremendously as a result and are proud to be a leader in the competitive technology market."

The San Francisco Business Times has been tracking the Bay Area's explosive business growth with its Top 150 list for the past 19 years. PowerTest has become the premiere provider of performance management, software quality assurance and test services in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since its inception in 1995, PowerTest employee growth has increased at 100% each year and revenue growth is expected to top 10 million dollars in fiscal 2000. Earlier this year PowerTest expanded operations to the Washington, D.C. Metro Area by opening an office in Reston, Virginia. In addition to providing software quality assurance services, PowerTest is the second largest reseller of Mercury Interactive automated software testing tools.