Embarcadero Technologies DBArtisan Named 2006 Editors' Choice Award Winner by Windows IT Pro SQL Server Magazine

Business Wire, August 1, 2006

SAN FRANCISCO -- Embarcadero(R) Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:EMBT), a leading provider of strategic data management (SDM) solutions, was named a gold winner in the Database Administration category of the 2006 SQL Server Magazine Editors' Choice Awards.

SQL Server Magazine helps professionals solve problems and gain functionality by reporting on relevant products' quality and utility. To recognize superior products in the market, the editors and writers of SQL Server Magazine created the first annual Editors' Choice Awards.

"The Editors' Choice Awards allows editors and writers to give our perspective on the products we find exceptional," said Karen Forster, Editorial and Strategy Director.

Editors and writers chose a platinum and gold winner in 17 categories based on the product's strategic importance to the market, its competitive advantages, and the value to the customer.

"We're excited to have the opportunity to connect readers with the third-party vendors who serve them and to acknowledge excellence," said Forster.

Full details about the Editors' Choice Awards and Tech Ed awards are available at http://www.sqlmag.com or in the August issue of SQL Server Magazine.

"We're honored to have received recognition as the database administration solution of choice by such an esteemed panel of writers and editors," said Greg Keller, vice president of product management at Embarcadero Technologies. "Embarcadero is driven to deliver the most relevant, cost-effective and highest quality solutions to our customers -- and this award is validation that we are doing just that."

DBArtisan is the leading database administration solution for maximizing availability, performance and security of databases throughout the entire enterprise. DBArtisan has helped thousands of companies deliver the highest levels of uptime, performance and security from critical database applications using one single point of control to deliver a simplified, cost-effective solution across all platforms, technologies and processes spanning geographic boundaries and business units.

Powerful visual tools that construct even the most complicated SQL statements with point-and-click ease, built-in syntax checking facility, and built-in analysis and debugging functionality are just some of the features that make DBArtisan a gold product in the eyes of SQL Server Magazine.

About Embarcadero Technologies

Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:EMBT) is a leading provider of strategic data management solutions that help companies to improve the availability, integrity, accessibility, and security of corporate data. Nearly 12,000 customers, including 97 of the Fortune 100, rely on Embarcadero Technologies solutions to maximize their return on corporate data assets and to meet the challenges of explosive data growth, escalating data security requirements, and complex, multi-platform data environments. Embarcadero Technologies is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. For more information, call 415/834-3131 or visit www.embarcadero.com.

About Windows IT Media

Penton's Windows IT Media, the largest independent Windows IT community in the world, includes flagship print publication Windows IT Pro. First published in 1995, Windows IT Pro is the editorial leader in its field and has a paid subscription base of 105,000. The magazine is published in 13 languages and has an international reach into 160 countries. Windows IT Pro UPDATE, the group's flagship email newsletter, is the only e-newsletter to make BtoB Magazine's Media Power 50 list.

Windows IT Media also includes SQL Server Magazine and MSD2D. SQL Server Magazine has 30,000 paid subscribers, and three email newsletters sent to more than 130,000 opt-in subscribers. MSD2D is a rich online information resource for IT professionals, with a focus on the software developer community. MSD2D has a robust product mix that includes a vertical search engine, Web sites, partner directories, email newsletters, trade show programs and Web seminars.

The Windows IT Media network has 2.5 million unique visitors to its websites each month, and over one million (gross) subscribers who opt-in to one or more of our email newsletters. Windows IT Media is the world's leading producer of custom roadshows, paid conferences and paid workshops for Windows and SQL Server IT professionals.

For more information visit: www.windowsitpro.com/pressroom, and www.windowsitmedia.com.

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