UPGRADE COMPETING XML TOOLS TO STYLUS STUDIO 2006

Customers who Purchased Competing XML Products Can Save Big by Trading in Their Licenses and Upgrading to Stylus Studio 2006, the World's Best XML IDE

Bedford, MA, June 2, 2006 - Stylus Studio (http://www.stylusstudio.com), the industry-leading provider of XML tools and components for advanced data integration, today renewed their popular upgrade program allowing customers who purchased competing XML tools on or before June 1, 2006, to upgrade to Stylus Studio 2006 XML Enterprise Edition or Stylus Studio 2006 XML Professional Edition and save $250 off already low prices. This offer expires June 16, 2006. Qualifying customers seeking a robust XML IDE can grab this unique opportunity by emailing your proof of purchase.

"We're pleased to be able to offer this upgrade path to developers using other XML IDEs - when you compare Stylus Studio 2006 on a feature-by-feature basis, we're confident that you'll conclude that for standards-based XML application development, Stylus Studio 2006 is the tool for the job," said Robert Evelyn, Stylus Studio's General Manager. "Many of the latest new features of competing XML IDE's seem to remain rooted in their home-grown components, leaving XML application developers with little insight into how their applications will perform in a production environment that uses different XML processing components. Stylus Studio remains committed to promoting W3C standards in the XML community. We encourage developers to make the switch to Stylus Studio this week to take advantage of this extraordinary upgrade opportunity. Visit our website, get educated on the facts about XML tools and components, and see why upgrading to Stylus Studio 2006 makes so much sense."

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Why Upgrade to Stylus Studio?

Stylus Studio 2006 XML Enterprise Edition provides the a powerful and productive XML IDE for advanced XML data integration, providing dozens of integrated tools for developing, debugging, and deploying advanced XML applications. This comprehensive and standards-based XML IDE provides XML developers with everything they need without having to purchase multiple products, add-ons, or a suite of products. Here are just a few of the highlights of the new features in Stylus Studio 2006 XML Enterprise Edition:

Most Innovative and Productive XML Tools: Support for popular XML processors from DataDirect, Saxon, and Apache; mapping tools for XQuery and XSLT; Java code generation for XQuery and XSLT; Profilers for XQuery and XSLT; deployment components that allow you to access non-XML data sources as XML. Stylus Studio has it all.
Standards Compliance: Stylus Studio proudly supports W3C standards for XML, XQuery, XSLT, XML Schema and other XML technologies. You work too hard to have your applications scuttled by proprietary schemes. Stick with standards, and Stylus Studio.
Scalable Deployment Options: Stylus Studio XML Deployment Components let you seamlessly stream relational and other non-XML data like EDI and CSV to XML processors from DataDirect, Saxon, and Apache using our URI resolvers and Data Conversion API's. Develop on the desktop, deploy to the enterprise!
Value: Stylus Studio 2006 XML Enterprise Edition does the work of a complete suite of competitors' XML IDEs. Why buy costly add-ons that don't even support recognized XML standards? Stylus Studio also provides free technical support! And users can save even more money by taking advantage of our renewed competitive upgrade program.

Upgrade to Stylus Studio today!

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: XSLT, XQuery, XML Schema, Web services, legacy data integration, XML mapping and more. 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.

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Wednesday, April 19, 2006	Document XQuery with Stylus Studio and xqDoc!

Friday, March 31, 2006	Simplifying Web Services with XQuery

Monday, March 27, 2006	Stylus Studio® 2006 Release 2 Now Available

Thursday, March 16, 2006	Edit and Validate XML

Monday, March 13, 2006	XML Schema Made Easy

Friday, February 24, 2006	Building XML Workflow Applications

Friday, February 17, 2006	Business-to-Business Data Integration in a SOA World

Friday, February 10, 2006	Network World: Stylus Studio XML IDE Overachieves

Tuesday, January 31, 2006	Learn Stylus Studio in 6 Minutes

Monday, January 23, 2006	XQuery Innovator Queried by Stylus Studio

Thursday, December 15, 2005	An Introduction to XML Schema-Aware Queries and Stylesheets by Dr. Michael Kay

Monday, November 14, 2005	DataDirect Launches XML Converters for Accessing any Data Source as XML

Monday, November 14, 2005	Stylus Studio 2006 XML Enterprise Edition Simplifies XML Data Integration and Enhances Developer Productivity

Wednesday, November 09, 2005	An Introduction to the XQuery FLWOR Expression

Tuesday, September 13, 2005	Build Fabulous XML Schemas With Stylus Studio

Wednesday, September 07, 2005	Caught on Tape: Bi-Directional EDI to XML Mapping!

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