Sonic Software Executives to Discuss Service-Oriented Architecture And the Enterprise Service Bus At Leading Industry Conferences in February

Business Wire, Feb 2, 2005

BEDFORD, Mass. -- SOA, ESB and Standards Expertise Showcased in Presentations at New York, San Francisco and Boston Events

Sonic Software (http://www.sonicsoftware.com), the inventor and leading provider of the enterprise service bus (ESB), today announced that several of its executives will be featured speakers at major industry events during the month of February.

Hub Vandervoort, vice president of strategic services for Sonic Software, will kick off the month by participating in a panel discussion at the 2005 Web Services on Wall Street Show & Conference (http://lighthouse-partners.com/wsonws/home.htm) at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York City. The panel will examine past and present infrastructure and technologies used to implement service-oriented architectures (SOAs) and determine best practices for creating a perfect platform.

What:  2005 Web Services on Wall Street Show & Conference
       Panel: "The Perfect Infrastructure for SOA -- Are We There
       Yet?"
Who:   Hub Vandervoort, vice president of strategic services, Sonic
         Software
When:  Wednesday, February 2, 2005; 3:30 p.m. ET
Where: Metropolitan Pavilion, New York City

Sonic Software Chief Technology Officer Gordon Van Huizen will be a featured speaker at the Software Architecture Summit, held in conjunction with VSLive! (http://www.ftponline.com/Conferences/vslive/2005/sf/), February 8-9 in San Francisco. In his presentation, Van Huizen, pioneer of ESB technology, will look at the top 10 myths, misconceptions and questions related to the ESB, and provide clear guidance for enterprise architects considering the technology.

What:               Software Architecture Summit
                    "Top 10 ESB Myths"
Who:                Gordon Van Huizen, CTO, Sonic Software
When:               Wednesday, February 9, 2005; 10:30 a.m. PT
Where:              Moscone Center West, San Francisco

Sonic Software executives Glen Daniels and Dave Chappell will each speak at Web Services EDGE 2005 East (http://sys-con.com/edge2005east/), February 15-17 in Boston. In his session, Daniels, co-author of "Building Web Services with Java," will look at the state of key Web services standards and discuss the organizational impact of standards adoption in the industry. Chappell, author of the first and definitive book on ESBs, will lead a discussion on ESBs and describe how the technology has emerged as one of the first true SOA product offerings, bringing SOA from pattern to production.

What:              Web Services EDGE 2005 East
                   "Web Services Standards: Going Behind the Mask"
Who:               Glen Daniels, manager of standards and consortia,
                    Sonic Software
When:              Tuesday, February 15, 2005; 10:00 a.m. ET
Where:             John B. Hynes Convention Center, Boston

What:              Web Services EDGE 2005 East
                   "SOA: From Pattern to Production"
Who:               Dave Chappell, vice president and chief technology
                    evangelist, Sonic Software
When:              Thursday, February 17, 2005; 9:00 a.m. ET
Where:             John B. Hynes Convention Center, Boston

About Sonic Software Corporation

Sonic Software is the inventor and leading provider of the enterprise service bus (ESB). Sonic enterprise integration and messaging products deliver flexibility, scalability, and continuous availability through patent-pending innovations. Sonic Software enables over 700 customers to integrate their organizations from the department to the extended enterprise with a standards-based, service-oriented architecture (SOA).

Sonic Software is an independent operating company of Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS), a US$300 million global software industry leader. Headquartered in Bedford, Mass., Sonic Software can be reached on the Web at http://www.sonicsoftware.com, or by phone at 1-781-999-7000 or 1-866-GET-SONIC.

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