GLOBAL 2000 COMPANIES AND SERVICE PROVIDERS SHOWCASE RETURNS FROM OPSWARE AUTOMATION AT OPSWORLD 2005 USER CONFERENCE
Leading Companies and Strategic Partners Tout the Importance of IT Automation

SUNNYVALE, Calif. - September 27th, 2005 - Opsware Inc. (NASDAQ: OPSW), the leading provider of IT automation and utility computing software, today announced the successful outcome of its annual OPSWorld User Conference, held earlier this month in Burlingame, California. This was the result of record-breaking participation from the company's Global 2000 customer-base and strategic partners, who touted how IT automation has helped drive down costs, automate compliance, and simplify the management of IT environments as they inevitably become more complex as new technologies emerge and global expansion creates scalability issues.

OPSWorld 2005 was the company's first cross-product user conference for all Opsware customers, partners and resellers from North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. The conference featured key customers, including MSN (Microsoft), EDS, and Intelink, who showcased their Opsware deployments and returns received from IT automation across their global IT environments. In addition to the customer presentations, Don Rippert, CTO of Accenture, provided the keynote address on "The critical role of IT automation in achieving high performance IT." Also speaking to key IT trends that are accelerating demand for IT Automation software were Opsware's strategic partners, including KPMG, VMware, and Nortel Networks.

The conference highlighted Opsware's product strategy, company direction and showcased new capabilities for the Opsware Server Management and Automation, Network Management and Automation, and Asset Management System- once again proving its dedication to providing innovative, world-class IT Automation solutions. Additionally, several companies were honored with Best of OPSWorld Awards for their usage and deployments of Opsware. Winners included:

• EDS - Most Geographically Distributed Deployment
• MSN (Microsoft) - Most Innovative Use of Opsware
• Marriott International - Best Asset Management Practices
• Intelink - Most Automated Lights Out Data Center

"I would like to thank all our participating customers and partners for making OPSWorld 2005 our most successful user conference yet," said Ben Horowitz, Opsware's president and CEO. "Our success has everything to do with providing our customers, partners and employees with a valuable forum to discuss their experiences, ideas, and sharing of IT best practices. It is a valuable exchange of knowledge that furthers our goal of creating the most adaptive and interactive customer experience possible."

The OPSWorld User Conference is held in the Fall every year and is open to all Opsware customers, partners and system integrators, and resellers.

About Opsware Inc.

Opsware Inc. (NASDAQ: OPSW) is the world's leading IT automation and utility computing software company. The growth of the Internet is driving a shift from client/server computing to Web architecture. With this shift comes an overwhelming proliferation of servers, networking devices and applications, creating massive complexity that makes an automated IT model a necessity. Opsware automates the complete IT lifecycle and delivers utility computing by enabling IT to automatically provision, patch, configure, secure, change, scale, audit, recover, consolidate, migrate, and reallocate servers, network devices and applications. Over 250 of the world's largest companies, outsourcers and government agencies use Opsware to deliver this new, automated model of IT. For more information on Opsware Inc., please visit our Web site at www.opsware.com.

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