| Product | IBM Rational Performance Tester 6.1 | Mercury LoadRunner 8.0 | NeoLoad v1.0 | SilkPerformer |
| Company | IBM | Mercury | Neotys | Segue |
| Phone | 02 9354 4000 | 02 8273 1999, 1800 837 848 | +33 (4) 91 82 84 90 | +1 781 402 1000 |
| Website | www.ibm.com /software/rational/ |
www.mercury.com/au | www.neotys.com | www.segue.com |
| RRP | Base Performance Tester (incl 5 virtual users) is around AU$3000 for authorised user licence. VU Packs start at around AU$4200. | Project based pricing starts from AU$25,287 for min three-month term | AU$2790 for one month lease with 500 virtual user licence | US$8780 for 500 VUs per month + Add Ons |
| Support | Web support free. E-mail and telephone is included in maintenance subscription during normal business hours. High priority issues and e-mail available 24/7 | 18 percent of list price | Australian Time Zone coming soon (September) with a local partnership. No additional cost | 18 percent of list price: hours are 9am GMT - 3am GMT Mon-Fri. Includes an unlimited technical support assistance, support Web site |
| Visual scripting | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Auto correlation - dynamic values | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Ramp up/Ramp down | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Dynamically add users to already running load test | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Simulate link speeds | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Breakdowns of Web transactions | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Diagnostics for J2EE .NET | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Templates | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Export to PDF/ HTML | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Support for ERP/CRMâ€"SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel, Oracle | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Support for Web browserâ€"HTTPS/ HTML, Macromedia Flash | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Support for Terminal Servicesâ€"Citrix Metaframe | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Support for middlewareâ€"CORBA, J2EE, .NET | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Multi platform (Windows, Linux, Solaris, Mac) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Target market | Model is structured to cater for any organisation | Enterprise | SMB/Enterprise | Medium to enterprise accounts; SilkPerformer Lite -- smaller accounts |
I think you missed iMacros in your review. We use it to test our websites. It's great! It has by far the best support for AJAX and Flash applets and the scripting interface is extremely powerful.