CRESCENT "POWERS UP" DEVELOPER PRODUCTIVITY WITH NEW POWERPAK PRODUCT SET

Two Editions Of PowerPak Further Enhance Productivity of Visual Basic
Corporate Developers

Bedford, Massachusetts, USA, January 30, 1996 -- The Crescent Division of
Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS) today announced two new
editions of its PowerPak line, the industry-standard multi-vendor suite of
professional Visual Basic development tools. PowerPak Release 2.0 will be
available as PowerPak Professional Edition* and PowerPak Enterprise
Edition*. These two versions have been formulated to provide the
industry's best Visual Basic tools, and to provide customers with superb
value. They are targeted at enhancing corporate application development,
and providing full support for Visual Basic 4.0 and Windows 95.

PowerPak Professional Edition, the perfect complement to Visual Basic
Professional Edition, provides individual and team developers with
best-of-breed tools and components from the leading Visual Basic vendors
Crescent, Apex Software and VideoSoft. The PowerPak Enterprise Edition
enhances Visual Basic's Enterprise Edition, and extends the PowerPak
Professional Edition by adding development, deployment and configuration
tools from Crescent, Desaware, New Technology Solutions and WhippleWare,
all geared to corporate and enterprise-scale applications.

Both PowerPak editions address the limitations and frustrations of
corporate Visual Basic developers, who need to spend their valuable time
building and deploying applications, rather than wading through hundreds
of products, evaluating, testing and selecting the ones that will make up
their standard toolset. Both editions also come with Crescent's
industry-leading, single-source technical support, to ensure that
customers receive rapid response to technical questions, even across
multiple vendors' products. The PowerPak line is also the only set of
Visual Basic tools backed by a comprehensive maintenance and upgrade
program, Crescent's Enhanced Support and Software Maintenance (ESSM)
option. This program provides developers with regular product updates
(point releases) at no charge, and major upgrades at reduced prices, as
well as priority 800-number support and other wide-ranging support
features.

"Since the introduction of PowerPak Pro* Release 1.0 in March, 1995,
PowerPak has become the Visual Basic tools standard in some of the largest
corporations," said Jennifer J. Bergantino, director of the Crescent
Division. "The PowerPak customer list contains a number of household names
in such wide ranging industries as technology, financial services,
transportation and broadcasting. These companies have seen the
productivity and cost-saving benefits of getting the 'best of the best' at
a single point of purchase, backed by a major world-wide application tools
vendor. With our two new editions in Release 2.0, this unique combination
of product excellence, single-source technical support and matchless value
is enhanced even further."

PowerPak Professional Edition Release 2.0 is comprised of the following
industry-leading products:

 * QuickPak Professional from Crescent
     The arsensal of essential custom controls and subroutines.
 * True DBGrid from Apex
     The data bound grid of choice for power, flexibility and
     extensibility.
 * RADBench from Crescent
     More productivity from the VB Integrated Development
     Environment (IDE).
 * VideoSoft VS-OCX
     Build tabbed applications, eliminate resizing code, and
     quickly parse string data.
 * VideoSoft VSView/OCX
     Printing and windowing in VB made intuitive.
 * XRef from Crescent
     Cleaner, faster code from the start.

PowerPak Enterprise Edition Release 2.0 extends the Professional Edition
with additional tools and components, providing developers with a powerful
tool suite for large-scale application development.

In addition to the above Professional Edition products, PowerPak 2.0
Enterprise Edition is comprised of the following leading products:

 * ClassAction from Crescent
     Easy tools for accessing the Windows API and building more
     powerful applications.
 * SpyWorks-VB from Desaware
     Tools to harness the full power of Windows from Visual Basic.
 * Atilla-VB Pro Edition from New Technology Solutions
     Integrated Development Environment (IDE) enhancement tools for
     team developers.
 * VersionStamper from Desaware
     Application distribution tools for Visual Basic.
 * VBCompress Pro from WhippleWare
     The most complete code compression utility for Visual Basic.

Pricing Plan

PowerPak Professional Edition Release 2.0 is priced as follows:

Customer/Product Category               Suggested List Price (U.S.)
Suggested Retail (List)  Price          $699
Upgrade from PowerPak Pro Release 1.X   $349

PowerPak Enterprise Edition Release 2.0 is priced as follows:

Customer/Product Category               Suggested List Price (U.S.)
Suggested Retail (List)  Price          $1399
Upgrade from PowerPak Pro Release 1.X   $699
Upgrade from PowerPak 2.0 Professional
  Edition to Enterprise Edition         $699

The Enhanced Support and Software Maintenance (ESSM) Program is priced as
follows:

Customer/Product Category               Suggested List Price (U.S.)
Suggested Retail (List) Price           $249
With Purchase of PowerPak product       $179

All ESSM prices are based on a one-year subscription per developer seat.

Crescent will begin shipping PowerPak Professional Edition in February.
PowerPak Enterprise Edition will begin shipping in March. The PowerPak
products will be available through Crescent resellers worldwide, by secure
purchase through the Crescent Web site, and directly from the Crescent
800-number.

Crescent can be reached within the United States by calling 800-352-2742;
outside the United States, users can dial 01-617-280-3000. Crescent is on
the Web at http://www.progress.com/crescent, and is also accessible by
sending e-mail to crescent@progress.com.

Crescent, headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts, is dedicated to
enhancing the success of Visual Basic developers by delivering tools and
services that heighten their productivity and provide the foundation for
creating reliable, scalable, business-critical applications. By leveraging
a 10-year track record of developing successful tools and components for
the BASIC and Windows/Visual Basic environments, Crescent provides
components and corporate and client/server solutions to its customers
worldwide. Through constant interaction with application developers,
Crescent develops and markets a broad array of products, services and
support options uniquely suited to the corporate Visual Basic market.

Progress Software Corporation, also headquartered in Bedford,
Massachusetts, is a leading supplier of application development and
database software to professional IS organizations in business, government
and industry worldwide. The PROGRESS product line enables developers to
rapidly and economically build and deploy enterprise-class client/server
applications for Oracle, Sybase, PROGRESS, SQL Server, and DB2/400
databases.

Progress Software develops, market and supports the PROGRESS product line
directly to IS organizations and through more than 2,300 Application
Partners (VARs) who offer thousands of applications to a wide variety of
industries. More than $1.5 billion worth of PROGRESS-based applications
are sold each year by Application Partners globally. Progress Software
markets and supports its products in over 60 countries through a network
of 18 subsidiaries and more than 30 distributors throughout Europe,
Australia, Latin America and Asia.
 
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