Original's CEO offers free comparable products and other discounts to those customers willing to switch maintenance. 

Original Software, which calls itself "the application quality management (AQM) vendor," today announced a swap-out promotion for Borland and Compuware customers, who may face uncertainty in the future of their legacy product roadmaps. (Both Borland and Compuware now have been acquired by Micro Focus International plc (see related release). 

Original Software offers market-leading AQM solutions that span the application development life-cycle from requirements, planning and management to complete automated regression testing, including unique solutions for manual testing and test data management. 

Colin Armitage, CEO of Original Software, said: “Any customer on a current maintenance contract with Borland or Compuware can qualify for the Escape program and swap to one of our comparable solutions, provided they switch the maintenance agreement.” The promotion, which runs until the end of the year, includes preferential pricing on all the company’s other complimentary solutions. 

“While Micro Focus has now completed the acquisitions of Borland and Compuware, the future for their customers is far from clear. It is inevitable that one of the solutions will take precedence, leaving the other customer base facing an unpleasant choice. You have to feel special sympathy for the users of the Borland testing products for whom this is the second change of ownership in less than three years,” he said. 

“The great thing about the Escape program is that companies can remove the uncertainty about the products' futures and join a company whose vision has been widely recognized by industry analysts like Gartner and Ovum. At the same time they can benefit from great customer service and a modern AQM solution suite that addresses traditional automation and the now widely recognized needs for collaboration, manual test support, and test data management”. 

About Original Software 

Original Software offers automated software testing and quality assurance solutions that deliver tangible benefits across a wide range of IT and application environments.  As a recognized innovator, Original Software’s goal is to reduce business risk and improve application time to market for IT departments through the development of class-leading automated solutions. 

Over the last 10 years, more than 400 organizations operating in 25 countries have come to depend on Original Software for their software testing solutions. Current users range from small software development shops to major multinationals, including Cargill Global Financial Solutions, Circuit City Stores, Pfizer Pharmaceutical (Ireland), DHL, Coca-Cola, Skandia and hundreds of others. 

Original Software operates central offices near Chicago and London. Its solutions can be obtained through these offices or through a network of qualified and knowledgeable business partners throughout Europe, the Middle East, Australasia, and the Americas.