CA Certifies DataDirect Technologies' Web Services Solution for Mainframe SOA as Interoperable with Advantage(TM) CA-IDMS(R)/DB Database Online Applications.

BEDFORD, Mass. -- Shadow RTE(TM) Simplifies Development of Web Services and SOA Implementations Providing Business and Technology Agility to Advantage CA-IDMS Platforms

DataDirect Technologies, the unparalleled leader in data connectivity and mainframe integration, and an operating unit of Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq:PRGS), today announced that CA has certified Shadow z/Services(TM) mainframe integration software as interoperable with Advantage(TM) CA-IDMS(R)/DB Database (Advantage CA-IDMS) online applications.

The integrated solution simplifies the development of Web services based on Advantage CA-IDMS screen-based applications, and through its support for Service-Oriented Architectures, provides CA customers increased flexibility for application re-use with other systems and technologies across the enterprise.

"CA customers want to use Web services to leverage existing business logic running in their Advantage CA-IDMS applications," said Judy Kruntorad, Vice President for IDMS Development at CA. "DataDirect's Shadow z/Services addresses this need -- enabling IT organizations to easily and flexibly extend legacy resources as part of their SOA initiatives."

Shadow RTE(TM), the industry's first Mainframe Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) on-ramp, has received the CA smart seal of excellence, which is awarded to products that integrate seamlessly with CA solutions, enabling customers to exploit best-in-class enterprise technologies while minimizing cost, time-to-benefit and risk.

Shadow RTE is a robust technical architecture and consolidated development environment that further enables Advantage CA-IDMS customers to integrate mission critical mainframe resources into a real-time enterprise. Advantage CA-IDMS is a powerful, Web-enabled database platform that handles extremely demanding high-volume processing requirements -- including online transaction processing, batch job activity, and transactions from diverse distributed-platform applications -- for more than 1,000 organizations worldwide.

Complementing Shadow RTE is DataDirect Technologies' Shadow Studio(TM), a graphical interface tool and comprehensive IDE. Shadow Studio provides seamless integration within the IDE to expose mainframe applications and data as Web services and real-time business tightly integrated with the Advantage CA-IDMS Integrated Data Dictionary. This allows one development environment to handle any SOA integration requirement without requiring detailed knowledge of the mainframe or distributed technologies.

"For large organizations that run their business on Advantage CA-IDMS applications, there is great value in using Web services to extend their current investments and to facilitate composite application development," said Hugh Raiford, Director of Business Development, DataDirect Technologies. "The result of the Shadow RTE and Advantage CA-IDMS partnership will allow mainframe-based Advantage CA-IDMS enterprises the ability to extend or integrate mission-critical applications using industry standard technologies, such as WSDL and XML. This seamless interoperability will result in increased business agility, reduced integration challenges, and a faster time to value for our joint customers," added Raiford.

NEON Systems was acquired by Progress Software in January 2006 and is now part of DataDirect Technologies, an operating unit of Progress Software Corporation. The merger of NEON Systems with DataDirect creates an unparalleled leader in data connectivity and mainframe integration. NEON's Shadow RTE provides the industry's only single, unified platform for integrating mainframe data, Web services and real-time events. For organizations with significant investments in mainframe systems, Shadow RTE dramatically reduces the cost and complexity associated with mainframe integration. For more information on mainframe integration, visit www.shadowrte.com.

About DataDirect Technologies

DataDirect Technologies is the software industry's only comprehensive provider of software for connecting the world's most critical business applications to data and services, running on any platform, using proven and emerging standards. Developers worldwide depend on DataDirect(R) products to connect their applications to an unparalleled range of data sources using standards-based interfaces such as ODBC, JDBC(TM) and ADO.NET, XQuery and SOAP. More than 300 leading independent software vendors and thousands of enterprises rely on DataDirect Technologies to simplify and streamline data connectivity for distributed systems and to reduce the complexity of mainframe integration. DataDirect Technologies is an operating company of Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq:PRGS). For more information, visit www.datadirect.com.

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