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StrongMail Connector for Salesforce., the only company 100% focused on
providing a complete infrastructure for email senders , today announced
the availability of StrongMail Connector for Salesforce. Combined with the more than 5,000 sforce developers, this
activity demonstrates the importance and popularity of sforce
solutions for thousands of salesforce. StrongMail has pioneered the world's first email
application server to simplify the development and management of email
applications for transactional and marketing communications.

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About DataDirect Technologies

DataDirect Technologies is focused on standards -based data connectivity,
enabling software developers to quickly develop and deploy business
applications across all major databases and platforms. DataDirect
Technologies offers the most comprehensive, proven line of data
connectivity components available anywhere.

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is the world's most widely used on-demand CRM.
A variety of systems and platforms, including enterprise
applications, desktop solutions, mobile devices and IP phone systems,
integrate with Salesforce.
Leveraging standards and technologies from the Service Oriented
Architectures (SOA), sforce continues to demonstrate how the on demand
platforms are a central part of the new enterprise IT strategies.
Founded in 2002 , StrongMail Systems is privately held and funded
by Sequoia Capital and Evercore Ventures.

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31, 2004 , salesforce. Now in its 17th
generation, salesforce.com offers its customers the most mature
on -demand offering, one that includes powerful integration
capabilities via the sforce platform, customization tools through
Customforce.5% with
delivery throughput of over 1 million messages per hour.strongmailsystems . "But true innovation to
us also means looking ahead -- providing technical leadership through new
tools and support for promising new technologies like XQuery, which will
greatly simplify XML data access and integration tasks in enterprise
computing.

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Like the sforce platform, StrongMail EAS, an email application
server, and StrongMail Express, its open source web-based UI, are
based entirely on open standards and technologies, providing
integration through XML / SOAP, content through HTTP and XML / XSL,
and delivery through SMTP.
Stylus Studio (http://www. The Stylus Studio 6 XML Professional Edition
nomination for best enterprise productivity application underscores the
surging popularity of the Stylus Studio XML IDE in the IT community and is
yet another notable testament to its competency and prowess at simplifying
all things XML. Developers also depend on DataDirect to
radically simplify complex data integration projects using XML products
based on the emerging XQuery and XQJ standards.

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com and Supportforce. This
translates to millions of requests each day coming from integrated
desktop and enterprise applications, rather than from a Web browser
alone.NET.

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intuitive and flexible architecture that its customer's rely on for
customer acquisition and retention.

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XML Productivity Through Innovation

"The Stylus Studio team's mission is to deliver unprecedented XML
productivity through innovation . Headquartered in Bedford, Mass.

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com),
the industry-leading provider of XML development tools for advanced data
integration, won the nomination for Ziff Davis' eWEEK Magazine's 5th Annual
eWEEK Excellence Awards.

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The sforce on demand platform allows solution developers to
customize, integrate and extend salesforce.com or by phone at +1-800-876-3101.

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"Salesforce.com is a leading CRM application on the market today
and the StrongMail Connector makes it easy for organizations using
salesforce to extend the reach of their customer facing initiatives
through email communication ," said Frank Addante, CEO of StrongMail
Systems."

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:
XSL, XSLT, XML Schema, DTD, SOAP, WSDL, SQL/XML, XML mapping, and XQuery.
Used by leading software developers world-wide, Stylus Studio simplifies
XML programming and enhances developer productivity through innovation.

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Since its launch in June 2003, the sforce Web service API has
grown to represent 20 percent of Salesforce.

About StrongMail Systems, Inc.

StrongMail Systems is the only company that is 100% focused on
providing a complete infrastructure to solve today's challenges for
email senders.

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StrongMail Connector immediately connects through
StrongMail Express, a web-based messaging application for business
senders, enabling users to quickly generate mailing lists based on
canned queries, partially-custom, or fully-customized search criteria. Free
access to the sforce community, as well as more information on the
sforce Developer Program, is available at http://sforce.

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The pre-integrated, packaged offering of StrongMail Connector for
Salesforce .com's customers.

PRESS RELEASE Stylus Studio Selected as Finalist in the 5th Annual eWEEK Excellence Awards

Regarding this year's
nominees, Peter Coffee, eWEEK Technology Editor, commented, "More than ever
before, the Excellence field this year showed that IT vendors are trying to
deliver what enterprise professionals need, not just following the
least-resistance path of technology progress . For
more information, visit http://www.stylusstudio.

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Stylus Studio is a registered trademark of Progress Software Corporation in
the U. Any other trademarks or service marks contained herein are the
property of their respective owners.

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Tightly
integrated with Salesforce."
With more than 13,300 customers and 214,000 subscribers of all
sizes, geographies and industries as of Dec. It
includes a high-performance MTA optimized for speed and
deliverability, a load balancer designed specifically for email, and
application building blocks for dynamic content, tracking, bounce
handling, and CAN-SPAM and anti-spam compliance .

The eWEEK Excellence Awards program is the industry's most comprehensive
enterprise IT benchmark for assessing products and services that
demonstrate innovation and integrate cutting-edge technologies while
maintaining strong commitment to helping enterprises address their varied
competitive, security and budgetary concerns.

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com Makes Emailing to Contacts
and Leads Easy, Fast, and Scalable

StrongMail Systems, Inc.com customers, StrongMail
Connector enables business senders to email contacts and leads stored
in Salesforce. The Company is headquartered
in Redwood Shores , CA.stylusstudio.

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Users can personalize email campaigns without a separate data export
step by selecting data fields that are then inserted in the HTML or
XSL mailing template.

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com via the sforce on-demand platform and
immediately available to salesforce.com and complete globalization with 11 languages. To this end, we've built the most robust
suite of versatile XML editors, debuggers and complementary utilities that
collectively take the guesswork out of XML, all at affordable prices ," said
Carlo Innocenti, Stylus Studio's Program Manager. DataDirect Technologies is
an operating company of Progress Software Corporation, a US$300+ million
global software industry leader.,
DataDirect Technologies can be reached on the Web at
http://www.

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com traffic. Using StrongMail, businesses have cut
development time of email solutions by over 80%, cut operating costs
by 50%, and achieved sustained deliverability rates of 99. Developers worldwide at more
than 250 leading independent software vendors and thousands of corporate IT
departments rely on DataDirect products to connect their applications to
an unparalleled range of data sources using standards-based interfaces such
as ODBC, JDBC and ADO.

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StrongMail Systems Announces Availability of New Sforce Solution

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com provides message
personalization, real-time delivery monitoring, and open and click
tracking features for continued enhancement to Saleforce. These integrations make key business information
available to users from all of their favorite applications and tools.

For more information, visit www.com .S.

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com.com using StrongMail.com allows customers to seamlessly import lists and manage
communications with clients, customers and prospects stored in
Salesforce.com via the sforce Web
service API . StrongMail is
application agnostic and easily integrates with list managers, CRM and
marketing applications, and custom developed solutions to make sending
email as easily and reliable as dial -tone.

Examples includes listserv (or listserves), mailing lists, newsgroups (the Website or archive for such newsgroup), email newsletters and email lists.

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"In addition to the performance StrongMail brings to email
delivery, StrongMail Connector for salesforce.com to create sophisticated
custom CRM solutions. In contrast to traditional packaged software,
sforce allows developers to use the tools they already know and love
from IBM, BEA (NASDAQ:BEAS), Borland (NASDAQ:BORL) and Microsoft
(NASDAQ:MSFT), and open source solutions like Perl and PHP, to build
CRM integrations and applications with record speed and success.datadirect.