Progress Software expands Actional SOA Management with support for Oracle and JBoss

New Ghost Agents deliver additional application server support

Bedford, Mass — 04 Dec 2006 — Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS), a provider of leading application infrastructure software to develop, deploy, integrate and manage business applications, today announced additional Ghost Agent components for its Progress® Actional® service-oriented architecture (SOA) management suite; namely the Actional Ghost Agent™ for Oracle application servers and the Actional Ghost Agent for JBoss application servers. These new capabilities will be demonstrated during the Gartner Application Integration & Web Services Summit, which is being held December 4 - 6, 2006, at the Gaylord Palms Resort in Orlando, FL.

The Actional Looking Glass™ product, together with the Ghost Agent components, provide unmatched business-process visibility across even the most complex SOA environments through automated discovery of services, service callers, and end-to-end business transactions. Actional Ghost Agent components actively monitor end-to-end SOA transactions and enforce both security and business policies, such as Service Level Agreements, without requiring changes to application code or business processes or adding any perceptible latency to service execution.

"Red Hat is focused on making it easier for enterprises to leverage best-of-breed technologies through our extensible, open source SOA platform," said Shaun Connolly, vice president, product management, JBoss, a division of Red Hat. "The Progress Actional Ghost Agent for JBoss brings greater visibility into SOA deployments for these enterprises, which then provides high value, low overhead SOA management and governance capabilities."

The Actional SOA management suite is a pioneer in web service management and provides visibility, security and control of the activities of services and end-to-end business processes in a runtime environment. The Actional suite monitors and controls both short running synchronous as well as long-running asynchronous business transactions as they flow across a wide variety of technologies (such as SOAP/WS-*, HTTP, .NET, JMS, JDBC™, RMI and EJB, application servers such as WebLogic, WebSphere and JBoss, and network appliances such as Cisco AON, Reactivity and Layer 7, as well as multiple brands of ESB including the Sonic ESB® and the BEA AquaLogic Service Bus).

"The Actional products are helping us deliver high quality service to our customers from our SOA infrastructure," said David Schwartz, IT manager, Integration Services, University of Phoenix, a subsidiary of Apollo Group. "The new Oracle Application Server Ghost Agent component will give us the additional ability to monitor and govern the Oracle-based applications that make-up our end-to-end transactions."

"The need for SOA management is gathering steam and, as a result, we are seeing a rapidly increasing demand for our products in the market. With the release of our JBoss and Oracle Ghost Agent components, the Actional SOA management suite continues to demonstrate our leadership and commitment to supporting our customer's needs," said Dan Foody, vice president, Actional products, Progress Software. "To derive immediate value from today's SOA projects you need to have management, security, and governance across a mix of application servers, infrastructure software, and hardware devices. These are the real world, heterogeneous environments that our customers operate in, and we're helping them make what they have work."

About Progress Software

The Progress Company is a global supplier of software and services that simplify the development, deployment, integration, and management of business applications. The Progress OpenEdge platform, with the industry's leading embedded database, delivers lowest cost-of-ownership applications that are rapidly implemented and easily integrated with other enterprise, extended enterprise and Internet applications.

With the expertise of more than 2000 independent software vendors (ISVs), and application service providers (ASPs), the Progress Company and its application partners supply more than $5 billion annually in Progress technology, Progress®-based applications, and related services. Progress customers span 50,000 organisations in more than 120 countries including 70 percent of the Fortune 100. The Progress Company, and Sonic Software are operating companies of Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS). Sonic Software designs and develops the Sonic range of products in the USA. In Europe, they are distributed by Progress Software. The Progress Company, an operating unit of Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS), is headquartered in Bedford, Mass., and can be reached in the UK at 01753 216300 or on the web at www.progress.com.

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