Sonic Software's Dave Chappell Named One of Top Ten Technology Innovators by CRN; CRN Magazine Says ESB Pioneer Casts ''Larger-than-life Shadow'' Over the Industry

Business Wire, Oct 28, 2005

BEDFORD, Mass. -- The boiler plate for Sonic Software has been replaced.

The corrected release reads:

SONIC SOFTWARE'S DAVE CHAPPELL NAMED ONE OF TOP TEN TECHNOLOGY INNOVATORS BY CRN; CRN MAGAZINE SAYS ESB PIONEER CASTS ''LARGER-THAN-LIFE SHADOW'' OVER THE INDUSTRY

Sonic Software (www.sonicsoftware.com), the inventor and leading provider of the enterprise service bus (ESB), today announced that Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist Dave Chappell has been named to CRN's list of the Top 10 Technologists in 2005 for his ground breaking work promoting the enterprise service bus (ESB). A profile of Chappell and the other winners appears in the October 10 issue of CRN and is available online at: http://www.crn.com/sections/special/reports/supergeeks.jhtml? ArticleID=171203492. (Due to the length of this URL, it may be necessary to copy and paste it into your Internet browser's URL address field. You may also need to remove an extra space in the URL if one exists.)

"CRN recognizes technologists whose innovations are casting larger-than-life shadows over the industry today," said John Longwell, CRN Special Reports Editor. "Our editors picked these 10 technologists based on the testimony of peers, their leadership in the industry and their success in bringing new products and technologies to fruition."

Chappell's book Enterprise Service Bus (O'Reilly Media, 2004) has emerged as the authoritative treatment of ESB technology, the prevailing infrastructure software for service-oriented architecture (SOA). Previous to writing the ESB book, Chappell co-authored Java Web Services (O'Reilly, 2002) and Java Message Service (O'Reilly Media, 2000), as well as contributing numerous articles to a variety of industry publications. Additionally, Chappell is active on the speaking circuit and has presented in front of over 5000 IT leaders and enterprise architects over the last year.

As CRN points out, "Dave Chappell literally wrote the book on the enterprise service bus."

"Dave has earned a well deserved reputation for cutting through the hype and delivering clear, actionable knowledge of standards-based, distributed computing technology. He is greatly deserving of this recognition as one of CRN's Top 10 Technologists," said Greg O'Connor, president of Sonic Software. "We are proud to have some of the industry's leading visionaries on the Sonic team. In addition to Dave, Bill Cullen and Gordon Van Huizen have also been honored in the past year for their extraordinary contributions. And all three will tell you that their achievements are directly related to the outstanding group of people that make up Sonic Software."

About Sonic Software

Sonic Software is the inventor and leading provider of the enterprise service bus (ESB), an open messaging 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 with the flexibility to adapt these systems to ever-changing business needs. Sonic Software is an operating unit of Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS), a global software industry leader. Headquartered in Bedford, Mass., Sonic can be reached at www.sonicsoftware.com, or 1-781-999-7000.

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