FineGround Networks and Keynote Partner to Provide End-To-End Performance Monitoring and Optimization for the Enterprise

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Monday, October 27, 2003; 12:00 AM

New York, NY GLOBAL INTERNET PERFORMANCE CONFERENCE - October 27, 2003 - FineGround Networks, the leader in Web application optimization and Keynote® Systems, (NASDAQ: KEYN), the worldwide leader in Web performance measurement and management services, today announced that FineGround has become a member of the Keynote partner program. The two companies will leverage the synergy between the FineGround Performance Suite and the Keynote Transaction Perspective® and Web Site Perspective services. Together, FineGround and Keynote can enable enterprises to reduce overall IT costs associated with application performance troubleshooting and significantly improve web-based application ROI.

"Organizations are quickly recognizing that the performance of Web applications used by their employees on the intranet is as critical to running their global business as the performance of applications used by their customers on the Internet," said Jay Mellman, vice president of marketing at FineGround Networks. "Keynote is the leading provider of objective measurement, management and testing solutions that help organizations deliver high performance applications to their internet users. Combined with FineGround, customers can confidently monitor user experience for critical applications and achieve highly optimized performance both inside and outside their enterprise."

The FineGround Performance Suite is the industry's leading Web application optimization and monitoring solution. A data center software solution, the Suite provides both agent-less end-user performance monitoring and dramatic performance improvements without changes to the applications or the desktop. Organizations use the FineGround solution to accelerate a variety of enterprise applications, including portals, ERP, CRM, and collaboration by an average of more than 300%. And by providing information on real users and real transactions, FineGround offers an accurate reflection of the user experience and unique data for use within more comprehensive Web performance monitoring and management solutions, such as that provided by Keynote.

"Our customers are keenly aware of the need to manage both their public Web sites and their business critical internal applications," said Arnold Waldstein, vice president of marketing and business development at Keynote. "By working with FineGround, we are extending our industry leading measurement, management and testing solutions to serve our customers even more fully."

FineGround and Keynote offer a full-spectrum solution that provides detailed visibility into all aspects of Web application performance, as well as significantly improving application performance as seen by end-users. FineGround's AppScope™ measures statistics on real users and real transactions; Keynote's agent-based solution suite can further drill-down to identify core problems identified by AppScope. The FineGround Condenser™ can actively resolve many of these performance bottlenecks.

About Keynote
Keynote Systems (Nasdaq: KEYN), The Internet Performance Authority®, is the global leader in Web performance measurement, testing and management services that improve the quality of e-business. Keynote's services enable corporate enterprises to benchmark, diagnose, test and manage their e-business systems both inside and outside the firewall. Approximately 2,300 corporate IT departments and 15,400 individual subscribers rely on the company's easy-to-use and cost-effective services to optimize revenues and reduce downtime costs without requiring additional complex and costly software implementations.

About FineGround Networks
FineGround Networks provides a software suite that transparently monitors and optimizes performance of enterprise application infrastructure. FineGround enables enterprises to unlock the value of their IT investment by providing optimized performance of critical business applications. The end-to-end performance optimization and monitoring solutions require no changes to the applications, servers or network. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Hy-Vee, Sun Microsystems, Whirlpool Corporation and many more are improving their web-based application performance utilizing FineGround's solutions. Backed by New Enterprise Associates, Worldview Technology Partners and private investors, the FineGround team is headquartered in Campbell, California. Information about FineGround Networks can be found on the Web at www.fineground.com.

Keynote and Perspective are registered trademarks of Keynote Systems, Inc.