Progress Software Names Dan Potter Vice President, SonicMQ Product Marketing.

Business/Technology Editors

BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 19, 2000

Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), a leading supplier of application development, deployment and management products and services, today announced the appointment of Dan Potter to vice president, SonicMQ(TM) product marketing. His responsibilities include worldwide marketing of the award-winning Progress(R) SonicMQ Internet messaging server. He was most recently director of Internet technologies at Progress Software.

"Dan's new role reflects SonicMQ's rapid adoption for business-to-business integration and e-commerce applications," said Progress Software Co-Founder and President Joseph Alsop. "Since its introduction last December, SonicMQ has been chosen by many of the world's leading e-commerce infrastructure companies. Dan's experience and leadership will help further extend SonicMQ's market position and establish it as the standard for Internet application messaging."

SonicMQ is based on the Java Message Service (JMS) specification, part of the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) standard from Sun, which provides a common set of messaging concepts and programming strategies enabling Java(R) developers to add enterprise message capabilities to their applications.

The first standalone JMS server from a major software vendor, SonicMQ has won several awards, including Java Pro magazine's Readers Choice Award for Best Java Messaging Tool, Best Java Middleware from attendees at the SIGS Conference for Java Development, and a World Class Award from Java Developer's Journal.

Before joining Progress Software, Potter was the vice president of marketing for Narrative Communications, an Internet multimedia advertising solution enabling e-commerce and branding. He also spent eight years at Oracle Corporation, most recently as senior director, marketing, for Oracle's New Media and Internet Products Division. In this position, he helped to define Oracle's role in electronic commerce, interactive multimedia and the Internet. Previously, Potter held the position of director of product management at Oracle, where he lead the company's efforts in the interactive television market, including set-top, network computer (NC) and emerging consumer devices.

Potter holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the University of New Hampshire.

About Progress Software Corporation

Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS) is a global supplier of software products and services for developing, deploying and managing business applications moving to the Internet. We offer messaging servers, application servers, databases, and application development and management products.

Our partners include more than 2,000 application service providers (ASPs) and independent software vendors (ISVs) who supply annually over $5 billion in Progress(R)-based applications and related services. Our products are used by over 10,000 organizations across 100 countries worldwide, including 60% of Fortune 100 companies. For more information, visit www.progress.com or call +1-781-280-4000.

Progress is a registered trademark and SonicMQ is a trademark of Progress Software Corporation. Java is a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc. All other trademarks and / or servicemarks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.