Stylus Studio 6 XML Professional Edition Wins Top Honors From CNET's Download.com

Market Wire, February, 2005

Stylus Studio (http://www.stylusstudio.com), the industry-leading provider of XML development tools for advanced data integration, was today awarded the CNET Download.com Editor's 5 star rating, their highest honor awarded to only the most outstanding software products. Winning the CNET Download.com Editor's award reflects the surging popularity of the Stylus Studio® XML IDE and its competency and prowess at handling emerging XML technologies like XQuery and XSLT. No one tool, for one low price, offers more to the XML developer.

Of course we're biased, but you don't have to take our word for it -- read what the CNET editorial staff had to say about Stylus Studio 6 XML Professional Edition: "This powerful environment provides extensive functionality for developing XML applications. The convenient, tabbed interface of Stylus Studio XML Professional Edition lets you easily manage multiple documents. Add new buttons by dragging and dropping, and toggle panels just as easily. The preview window opens the document in Internet Explorer. Work with a DOM tree diagram, a grid representation, or raw XML text complete with highlighting and indenting. Numerous wizards assist in creating XML applications and converting among formats. You can map the schema of an XML file to the schema of another XML file, useful if you need the same information in several forms. As the last steps, you can debug your style sheets and design a Web service call without writing any code. Professionals will find the functionality-to-price ratio reasonable."

Stylus Studio is a comprehensive developer toolbox for simplifying XML data integration, allowing users to edit and validate XML, design XML Schemas, convert EDI to XML, convert relational or any other legacy data formats to XML, and develop XQuery or XSLT 1.0/2.0 style sheets visually using an intuitive graphical user-interface. Stylus Studio is a must-have tool for IT professionals in today's XML-crazy IT environment.

"Our mission is to provide the most innovative and productive XML development tools without the needless hassle of unreasonable pay-per-feature pricing schemes. It's such a simple, sensible strategy, and it's really resonated with the XML developer community -- clearly developers are looking for alternatives when it comes to XML tools, and they like what they see in Stylus Studio," said Carlo Innocenti, Stylus Studio's Sr. Program Manager.

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About Stylus Studio®

Stylus Studio®, a product from DataDirect Technologies, an operating company of Progress Software Corporation, is the industry's most innovative XML IDE providing advanced support for XML and its related technologies: XSL, XSLT, XML Schema, DTD, SOAP, WSDL, SQL/XML, XML mapping and XQuery. Used by leading software developers world-wide, Stylus Studio simplifies XML programming and enhances developer productivity through innovation. For more information, visit: http://www.stylusstudio.com.

Stylus Studio is a registered trademark of Progress Software Corporation in the U.S. Any other trademarks or service marks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.

For More Information: David Jigarjian Business Development Manager Stylus Studio Telephone: (781) 280-4488 Email: stylusstudio@stylusstudio.com