Progress Software Corporation Captures Three InfoWorld Innovator Awards.

BEDFORD, Mass. -- 'Groundbreaking Individuals' Bill Cullen, Mark Palmer and Jonathan Robie Honored for Bold, Innovative Breakthroughs and Named to Innovators Hall of Fame

Progress Software Corporation (PSC)(Nasdaq: PRGS), a global supplier of application infrastructure software used to develop, deploy, integrate and manage business applications, today announced that executives from three of its operating divisions have been named winners of Innovator 2005 awards by InfoWorld Media Group, a division of IDG, the world's leading technology media, research, and event company. Bill Cullen of Sonic Software, Mark Palmer of the Progress Real Time Division and Jonathan Robie of DataDirect have been recognized for their vision and expertise that is "directing the future of enterprise technology and having a significant impact on the evolution of the tech world." All three executives will be added to InfoWorld Media Group's Innovators Hall of Fame.

In announcing the awards, the InfoWorld article states: "If it's true that fortune favors the bold, then the recipients of InfoWorld's Innovator 2005 awards have earned an opportune place in the annals of IT invention. By abandoning business as usual, these honorees are striking new paths to efficiency and reliability across the board. Thanks to the ideas and efforts of these groundbreaking individuals, technology advancements on several fronts are gaining momentum. We are pleased to honor those who are leading the way with their ingenuity." The article is available online at: http://www.infoworld.com/print_issue/archive/latest_print_issue.html

"Winning three of twelve awards in one year shows that Progress Software is at the forefront of some of the most exciting innovations taking place in the software industry today," said Joseph Alsop, CEO of PSC. "We have a well-earned reputation for working closely with partners and customers to deliver the best and most cost-effective applications infrastructure software. Behind this success are the exceptional people and teams that are creating industry breakthroughs in a variety of areas. These InfoWorld awards are a fitting testament to the bold, innovative work being done today by PSC."

Bill Cullen--"If the SOA (service-oriented architecture) movement had an official flag, on that flag would be a diagram of an ESB (enterprise service bus). And if you dotted the flag with the logos of leading SOA vendors, Sonic Software's would surely have to stand out from the rest. As vice president of engineering at Sonic Software, Bill Cullen has led the development of the Sonic ESB(R) and its CAA (Continuous Availability Architecture), a fail-over mechanism that not only guarantees message delivery, but reduces recovery time to mere seconds, all on inexpensive hardware. You might call it a service-oriented approach to fail-over."

Mark Palmer--"Event-stream processing (ESP) (is) the technology that absorbs high-volume and rapid-fire flows of event data and then performs both historical and real-time analysis of those events. As vice president of ESP for the real-time division at PSC, Mark Palmer is one of the innovators working to define this emerging discipline and to adapt databases and query languages to the new challenges it presents."

Jonathan Robie--DataDirect's XML program manager and an editor of the W3C XQuery specification. "Jonathan Robie (is) one of the prime movers in the development of XQuery. Today, XQuery is being implemented by all the major relational databases, by middleware vendors, in content management systems, and by open source projects. As XML becomes the lingua franca for everything from XHTML Web pages to Word documents, the value of a general-purpose XML query language becomes ever clearer."

PSC technology delivers measurable business results for over 60,000 organizations at over 110,000 sites around the world. Progress Software operating units include:

--Progress OpenEdge Division, provides a complete and integrated platform that simplifies the development, deployment, integration, and management of the world's best business applications;

--Progress Real Time Division, provides event-stream processing, data management, data access, and synchronization products to enable the real-time enterprise;

--Sonic Software, the inventor and leading provider of the enterprise service bus (ESB), an open messaging and integration infrastructure that supports the enterprise requirements of an SOA; and

--DataDirect Technologies, the industry leader in standards-based data connectivity, enabling software developers to quickly develop and deploy business applications across all major databases and platforms.

About InfoWorld Media Group

For more than 25 years, InfoWorld Media Group has provided cutting-edge coverage and evaluation of IT products and services for technology experts in senior management. Through integrated channels, including print, online, events, and demand generation, InfoWorld reaches the most influential senior-level information technologists--those who drive their enterprises' strategies and technology purchases. Powered by a continued investment in an independent Test Center, InfoWorld analysts and editors provide hands-on analysis and evaluation, as well as expert commentary on issues surrounding emerging technologies and products. Visit InfoWorld at http://www.infoworld.com.

About Progress Software Corporation

Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS) is a global industry leader providing application infrastructure software for all aspects of the development, deployment, integration and management of business applications through its operating units: Progress OpenEdge Division, Sonic Software, DataDirect Technologies, and Progress Real Time Division. Headquartered in Bedford, Mass., Progress can be reached at www.progress.com or [phone].

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