Progress Software Announces Availability of Sonic ESB 7.6

 New Sonic ESB Release Expands Functionality with Improved SOA
             Management and Enhanced BPEL Instrumentation  

BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 29, 2008--Progress Software
Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), a global supplier of application
infrastructure software used to develop, deploy, integrate and manage
business applications, today announced the availability of Progress(R)
Sonic(TM) ESB 7.6, its market-leading, messaging-based enterprise
service bus (ESB). This release offers greater productivity for
developers and for managing a service oriented architecture (SOA)
infrastructure across heterogeneous environments.

    The Progress Sonic ESB offers enterprises a powerful alternative
to centralized and monolithic middleware stacks by providing
enterprises with the ability to integrate new and existing business
services across their organizational boundaries, as well as connect to
remote sites with low latency, high reliability and continuous
availability.

    Sonic ESB 7.6 allows developers to create the most complex service
orchestrations from the 'top down' quickly, easily through 'drag and
drop' functionality, and iterative development processes. In addition,
it features embedded prototype services that allow developers to build
and test services without developing them fully. Also, this release
includes the addition of new process templates, which enable
developers to capture their own best practices and repeat or share
them for reuse.

    Sonic ESB 7.6 also includes the Sonic Workbench, which is an
Eclipse-based SOA graphical toolset that can be used to model,
configure, test and deploy processes and services. Additionally, these
graphical tools make it easy to specify configuration and deployment
details that support an intuitive 'top-down' approach to a SOA
development lifecycle.

    Tutorials, available in print and video format, provide developers
with best practice scenarios that help them create new services. For
example, included in the tutorial are two popular use-case scenarios:
'batch to real time' and 'remote information access' services. These
tutorials will help developers, who are new to SOA and ESB
technologies, to quickly become productive.

    In Gartner's 'Hype Cycle for Application Infrastructure
Middleware, Platforms and Architecture 2007', analysts Roy Schulte,
Jess Thompson and Kimihikio Iijima wrote: "The SOA and integration
market is dynamic, with a relatively high rate of mergers and
acquisitions. Therefore, companies buying an ESB product or another
SOA middleware infrastructure product that contains an ESB product
should consider the product viability and vendor viability, as well as
the ease of development, standards compliance, quality of local
support, administrative tools and feature richness."

    David White, Sonic Product Marketing Manager, Progress Software,
said: "We believe the release of Sonic ESB 7.6 most certainly hits
upon all of the requirements outlined by Gartner from its ease of use
to its feature-rich functionality. In addition to its financial
strength and stability needed for long-term customer and product
support, Progress Software offers customers a portfolio of
best-in-class SOA infrastructure products that supports their
multi-vendor SOA environments."

    Sonic ESB 7.6 is available for free downloading and evaluation at:
http://www.sonicsoftware.com/products/sonic_workbench/eval_downloads/
index.ssp (Due to the length of this URL, it may be necessary to copy
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    About Progress Software Corporation

    Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS) provides application
infrastructure software for the development, deployment, integration
and management of business applications. Our goal is to maximize the
benefits of information technology while minimizing its complexity and
total cost of ownership. Progress can be reached at www.progress.com
or +1-781-280-4000.