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Sonic Software Tops InfoWorld Product Round-Up of Enterprise Service Bus Offerings; Sonic SOA Suite Hailed as the ''Best Overall for Larger-Scale SOA Implementations''

Business Wire, July 28, 2005

BEDFORD, Mass. -- Sonic Software (www.sonicsoftware.com), the inventor and leading provider of the enterprise service bus (ESB), today announced that Sonic ESB(R) and the Sonic SOA Suite(TM) have been named "the most powerful, flexible, and scalable ESB" in a comprehensive ESB product round-up by InfoWorld magazine. The review appears in the July 25 issue of InfoWorld and is available online at http://infoworld.com/article/05/07/22/30FEesb_1.html.> The InfoWorld review states: "An ESB must be able to improve access and control over application resources, streamline development, and ultimately reduce integration costs over the long term. Among the products reviewed here, Sonic's SOA Suite is best equipped to achieve these goals on an enterprise scale. Sonic SOA Suite may be the most well-rounded and mature ESB solution in the marketplace today."

The Sonic Continuous Availability Architecture(TM) (CAA) was highlighted by InfoWorld as a way companies can reduce their "reliance on costly hardware as a hedge against system failures." Sonic CAA is a software-based approach for providing high availability and guaranteed message delivery.

"Sonic Software not only pioneered the ESB market, we continue to set the standards for innovative technology and delivering real-world customer value with capabilities like the Sonic Continuous Availability Architecture," said Greg O'Connor, president of Sonic Software. "While companies like IBM and BEA Systems are cobbling together ESB products, Sonic has a proven and extensive track record of helping organizations achieve their business objectives with cutting edge SOA infrastructure software."

Introducing the first ESB in 2002, Sonic Software was one of the first software vendors to recognize the need for a new kind of infrastructure capable of connecting, mediating and controlling large-scale networks of services. The leading industry research firms, influential publications, industry competitors, and most importantly enterprise customers have validated Sonic's early vision, recognizing ESB as critical infrastructure for supporting enterprise SOA requirements.

For more information about Sonic ESB and the Sonic SOA Suite, please visit www.sonicsoftware.com/products/index.ssp.> About Sonic Software

Sonic Software is the inventor and leading provider of the enterprise service bus (ESB), a new communication and integration infrastructure that supports the enterprise requirements of a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Sonic's technology delivers the scalability, security, continuous availability and management capabilities necessary to connect, integrate and control distributed, mission critical business processes. Over 1,000 customers use Sonic products to achieve broad-scale interoperability of IT systems and the flexibility to adapt these systems to ever-changing business needs.

Sonic Software is an independent operating company of Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS), a US$360 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.

Sonic ESB, Sonic SOA Suite, Sonic Continuous Availability Architecture and Sonic Software (and design) are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sonic Software Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. Any other trademarks or service marks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.