Opsware Expands European Management Team as Demand for Data Center Automation Increases in Region

As a sign of its increasing presence in the European market,
Opsware Inc. (NASDAQ: OPSW), the leading provider of Data Center
Automation software, today announced it has appointed Colin Rowland as
senior vice president for its Europe, Middle East and Africa region.
Rowland, who will report directly to Mark Cranney, executive vice
president for field operations at Opsware, will oversee Opsware's
sales and business development for the region and help position the
company to meet the increasing demand in Europe for its
industry-leading Data Center Automation software.

"Colin is the ideal leader to take the helm for our fast-growing
business in EMEA. His broad experience demonstrates excellent
leadership all the way from the startup level to Fortune 50 giants,"
Cranney said. "Colin has a history of building first-class sales
organizations that deliver strong results. His track record shows an
absolute commitment to providing genuine solutions to customers'
business problems, and I know he will carry that commitment forward to
meet the needs of Opsware clients."

"I'm thrilled to have joined the fastest-growing company in Data
Center Automation and to have the opportunity to build on that
leadership in Europe," Rowland said. "Opsware's software uniquely
integrates change management, compliance, and process automation all
in one, working across servers, networks and, later this year,
storage. The need for this approach to automating the whole data
center is especially keen in Europe, where the software is used to
automate and enforce compliance with the Information Technology
Infrastructure Library (ITIL) standards that so many IT organizations
in Europe are adopting. Opsware has the only solution capable of
automating end-to-end ITIL processes, making it the ideal choice for
European IT organizations."

Prior to joining Opsware, Rowland held senior management positions
at HP, Rainfinity, Mercury Interactive and, most recently, Tideway
Systems. As vice president of sales at Tideway, he revamped the
company's sales organization and infused the company with a strong
sales culture. As vice president of sales for EMEA at Mercury, he was
responsible for building the sales, professional services and support
functions and oversaw the channels and alliances business, sales
operations and Inside sales. He also played a key role in Mercury's
acquisition of Kintana. At Rainfinity, Rowland launched the company's
EMEA sales efforts and developed the region's sales and R&D functions.
During his eleven years at HP, he held a wide range of sales
management roles, culminating in his position as UK software sales
director, in which he grew the company's UK business by more than 300
percent in three years.

About Opsware Inc. (NASDAQ: OPSW)

Opsware, the world's leading IT automation company, unlocks the
promise of technology by accelerating IT to zero latency. The
company's software, the Opsware System, automates the entire data
center, from provisioning to patching, configuration to compliance and
discovery to deployment, turning data center operations into a
competitive advantage for business. Opsware's technology is used by
hundreds of companies worldwide including banks, service providers,
retailers, manufacturers and Internet companies with IT environments
ranging from hundreds to tens of thousands of servers, network
devices, storage devices and IT processes. For more information on
Opsware Inc., please visit our Web site at www.opsware.com.

Opsware is a service mark and trademark of Opsware Inc. All other
product names, service marks, and trademarks mentioned herein are
trademarks of their respective owners.

This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding
our opportunities in the data center automation market, particularly
in the EMEA region. These statements are subject to risks and
uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially
from these statements, including the risk that the assumptions
underlying our current business strategy may change, that our
experience operating as a software company is limited, and that the
products may not perform as described. More information about these
and other factors that could affect our business are included in our
Form 10-K filed with the SEC on April 14, 2006 under the headings
"Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial
Condition and Results of Operations" and the Forms 10-Q and 8-K that
we file during the fiscal year. The determination of when the new
storage automation capability mentioned in this release will be made
generally available, if ever, remains at the sole discretion of
Opsware Inc.