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Micromuse Inc. (Nasdaq: MUSE), the leading provider of ultra-scalable, realtime business and service assurance software, today announced that Scott Sobers, Micromuse's Director of Service Provider Solutions Marketing, will deliver two presentations at the Internet Telephony Conference and Expo. The conference will be held January 24-27, 2006 at the Fort Lauderdale-Broward County Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Sobers' first presentation, "QoS and Network Monitoring for Successful Large-Scale VoIP," will take place Tuesday, January 24, 2006 at 3:00 P.M. EST. This session will explore the challenges of managing IP telephony and converged voice and data infrastructures, the trends surrounding managed VoIP, and what many services providers are doing to support their enterprise customers. The second presentation, "Quality of Service State of the Market," will take place Thursday, January 26, 2006 at 2:30 P.M. EST. This session will examine the factors that affect VoIP QoS, such as latency of VoIP, bandwidth, network reliability, and jitter. Held since 1999, the Internet Telephony Conference and Expo is one of the world's largest and best-attended VoIP trade shows. Last October, TMC's Internet Telephony Conference & Expo in Los Angeles attracted more than 7,000 buyers and sellers of IP Telephony products and services. For this upcoming January show, TMC projects total attendance to exceed 8,500. For more information about the event, please go to: http://www.tmcnet.com/voip/conference/. About Micromuse Micromuse Inc. (Nasdaq: MUSE) is the leading provider of ultra-scalable, realtime business and service assurance software solutions. The Netcool(R) software suite provides organizations with the assurance that their IT systems are supporting and driving profits 24 hours a day. Unlike traditional infrastructure management systems, Netcool solutions provide realtime end-to-end visibility and accurate troubleshooting from a business perspective. Such business intelligence allows organizations to respond to problems quickly, streamline workflow processes and improve business uptime. Micromuse customers include BT, Cable & Wireless, Deutsche Telekom, EarthLink, ITC DeltaCom, JPMorgan Chase, MCI, T-Mobile, and Verizon. Headquarters are located at 650 Townsend Street, San Francisco, Calif. 94103; (415) 568-9800. The Web site is at www.micromuse.com. Micromuse and Netcool are registered trademarks of Micromuse Ltd. All other trademarks and registered trademarks in this document are the properties of their respective owners. Any statements contained in this press release that do not describe historical facts may constitute forward-looking statements as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Any forward-looking statements contained herein are based on current expectations, but are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties. The factors that could cause actual future results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements include the following: fluctuations in customer demand, the Company's ability to manage its growth (including the ability to hire sufficient sales and technical personnel), the risks associated with the expansion of the Company's distribution channels, the risk of new product introductions and customer acceptance of new products; the rapid technological change which characterizes the Company's markets, the risks associated with competition, the risks associated with international sales as the Company expands its markets, and the ability of the Company to compete successfully in the future, as well as other risks identified in the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission Filings, including but not limited to those appearing under the caption "Risk Factors" in the Company's most recent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and on Form 10-K on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission and available on the Company's Web site.