Just to be clear, what products are included in the testing tools market? It's not an application development tool, so it's performance testing, load testing, quality management and business process testing for what we call application delivery. It's a long list, with hundreds of variants, some in the LoadRunner line. We are the premier vendor for what we call application delivery and quality and performance testing. It's a comprehensive line, developed over our 16 years in business. We have 30,000 users for all our products, not just testing products.

Management companies are making lots of news about their configuration management databases. Will your CMDB stay in place in the merger? It's to be determined if that stays. HP has service desk capability from its Peregrine acquisition. Our CMDB is more about end user monitoring, mapping and change management. There's an opportunity there to take the best of both worlds.

How much overlap is there between HP and Mercury products? Very little. There's certainly none in the testing realm. Certainly very little in the IT governance realm, none in the SOA governance realm.

What is your role going forward? I'm working to get closure on the HP deal over the next 90 to 120 days, and then we'll see what happens after that. I'm also working with about 3,000 Mercury employees on integrating our technology with HP's.