Progress OpenEdge Recognized for Continued Worldwide Embedded Database

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    BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 3, 2005--

    Progress RDBMS Maintains Largest Marketshare As The Invisible Technology That Powers Diverse Business Applications at over 100,000
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    The Progress OpenEdge Division, a leading supplier of technology for building the world's best business applications and an operating unit of Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS), today announced that an independent study by IDC ranks Progress as the worldwide leader of the embedded database market with 19.7 percent market share. The IDC report, "Worldwide Embedded Database Management Systems 2003 Vendor Shares" (document 32468), examines the embedded DBMS market for 2001-2003. Worldwide market size is provided for 2003, with trends from 2002 through 2008.
    The IDC report defines embedded databases as "DBMSs that are sold to ISVs for inclusion in their software products. They have no visible aspect to the end users, with management functions either handled automatically or through an API, so that the client ISV can handle them in the context of normal product operation. They are typically designed and tuned for performance and small footprint rather than flexibility or ease of use (because they have no visible user interface)."
    According to IDC's report, "Progress Software is one of the vendors that practically invented" the embedded DBMS strategy, "with the company providing both DBMS and 4GL technology that was sold not to end-user organizations, but to ISVs who, in turn, developed and distributed products using that technology," said Carl W. Olofson, research director, application development and deployment at IDC. "Its Progress RDBMS has remained a bulwark of the company and continues to show strong performance as an embedded RDBMS in applications most commonly deployed on Unix systems. Progress has perfected virtually every dimension of this model, including its DBA-less RDBMS, close ISV relationships and tiered support capability."
    "The market for embedded DBMS grew by $115 million to $1.128 billion in 2003," said IDC's Olofson. "Progress continues to lead the embedded database market as interest in providing internal, hidden data storage for applications has increased among ISVs weary of the DBMS wars."
    "The OpenEdge RDBMS is the foundation of the Progress(R) OpenEdge(TM) 10 platform, our component-based approach to building distributed applications," said Dave Ireland, president of the Progress OpenEdge Division. "As our ISVs migrate their applications to meet customer demand for SOA-based applications, an embedded database that does not require a database administrator and delivers the lowest total cost of ownership offers them a crucial competitive edge."
    For more information about this report, please contact IDC report sales at 1-508-988-7988.

    About Progress OpenEdge Division

    The Progress OpenEdge Division is an operating unit of Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS), a $300+ million global software industry leader. The Progress OpenEdge Division simplifies the development, deployment, integration, and management of the world's best business applications. The Progress OpenEdge Division and its 2,000 Application Partners offer more than 5,000 OpenEdge-based business applications that precisely fit customer needs and deliver competitive advantage. Customers purchase more than $5 billion annually in OpenEdge-based software and services from Progress Software Corporation and its partners.
    The Progress(R) OpenEdge(TM) platform enables its partners to rapidly build and deliver lowest cost-of-ownership applications. Progress Software Corporation also conducts business through its other operating units: Sonic Software, DataDirect Technologies, and ObjectStore. Headquartered in Bedford, Mass., Progress Software can be reached on the Web at http://www.progress.com or by phone at +1-781-280-4000.

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CONTACT: Progress Software Corporation Candace Clemens, 781-280-4101 cclemens@progress.com or Schwartz Communications, Inc. Keith Giannini or Joan Geoghegan, 781-684-0770 progress@schwartz-pr.com

KEYWORD: MASSACHUSETTS INDUSTRY KEYWORD: HARDWARE COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS SOFTWARE SOURCE: Progress Software Corporation

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