Sector Performance Varies From Great To Dismal

NEW YORK, The price of the S+P SmallCap 600 today
traded at a level above the 350 mark for the first time since its inception on
January 3, 1994, returning a compounded 13.78 % 8.45%
Utilities 20 4. Cytel Software is a
privately owned company , headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and with
software development operations in Pune, India .

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Standard + Poor's data illustrates the wide variance in performance based
on sector classification within the SmallCap 600.70%
Financials 73 15.80% $31,802 11.com.

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S+P SmallCap 600 Index Reaches New High

The S+P SmallCap 600 has posted positive returns for
eight of the last ten years, and is currently up 6. "However , investors still need to do
their homework.26% $1,361 -17.com

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2% per year, reports Standard +
Poor's, the world's leading provider of independent investment research,
indices and ratings.41%
Industrials 109 17.
"We are very excited about this alliance with Systat Software.

About Cytel Software Corporation
Cytel Software Corporation has a 18-year track record as the premier
provider of software and services for the design and analysis of clinical
trials.

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4% of its value,
corresponding to an annual loss of 17. Information Technology , the sector
generally associated with small-cap/high-growth stocks, currently is ranked
ninth out of the ten sectors within the SmallCap 600, returning an annualized
6.61% 11.23% 52.35% -0.92% $19,272 6.42% 37.com., Systat
Software, Inc.

About Systat Software, Inc. For more information, visit http://www.

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4%.
To date, from the close of 2003, 46 small-cap issues have at least doubled in
price, but 26 have lost at least 50% of their value.


S+P SMALLCAP 600 (close of July 19, 2005)

$10,000
INVESTED ANNUAL YEAR-
% OF 12/31/ RATE OF TO-DATE 2004
ISSUES MARKET 1994 RETURN PRICE PRICE
VALUE NOW WORTH FR 12/94 CHANGE CHANGE

Consumer Discretionary 112 17.45% $54,314 17.
The family of Systat products include SYSTAT, a comprehensive statistical
analysis package, SigmaPlot(R), technical graphing and presentation software,
SigmaStat(R), step-by-step guided statistical analysis, PeakFit, automated
peak separation + analysis software, SigmaScan(R), powerful image analysis
software, TableCurve 2D(R) and TableCurve 3D(R), automated curve and surface
fitting software. More than 10,000 customers also use Cytel's award-winning StatXact and
LogXact(R) software for exact statistical inference.

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"Small-cap issues have an allure for growth-oriented investors who are
willing to take on additional risk to obtain a higher return," says Howard
Silverblatt, Market Equity Analyst at Standard + Poor's.4%, the
Telecommunications sector has plummeted, losing 86.
"Small-cap stocks are hot now, just as Technology and IPO's were in the
late 1990s," continues Silverblatt.77%
Information Technology 121 14.20%
Telecommunication
Services 2 0.23% -1.14% 26. ("Systat"), a leading provider of specialized scientific
software products and services , today announced a strategic partnership with
Cytel Software Corporation ("Cytel"), a leading provider of statistical
software and services for optimized clinical trial design and analysis.

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57% 19.

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They should certainly be selective, and not just buy by type,
size or classification.

For more information on the S+P SmallCap 600, please visit
http://www.29% 21.42% -0.41% 0.
StatXact is a package for exact non-parametric statistical inference on
continuous or categorical data. The
company also has offices in the United Kingdom, Germany and India and is
enhanced by a network of resellers and distributors in more than 30 countries
worldwide. Cytel's East(R) software is used by every division of the FDA and
by hundreds of biostatisticians and clinicians in industry and academia to
design, simulate and monitor group sequential and adaptive flexible clinical
trials.

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73% $29 ,454 10.58%
Energy 29 7.55% 26.49%
Materials 40 5.standardandpoors.

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29%
Consumer Staples 22 3.40% 27.

To Undertake Joint Development Efforts to Create
Interoperability Between Systat(R) and StatXact(R)

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. The
integrated module will be marketed under the SYSTAT brand and distributed by
Systat in 2006. Cytel's
StatXact software was first developed in 1989, it has since evolved to become
the most comprehensive software package for conducting exact statistical tests
with over 10,000 customers worldwide.cytel.

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Year-to-date, gainers
within the index, slightly outnumber losers, 313 to 283. We look forward to working with
Cytel software and developing newer and better products to address the needs
of the scientific and engineering community ," added Mueed Khader, Director,
Systat Software, Inc.

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74% $41,350 14.59%

About Standard + Poor's
Standard + Poor's is the world's foremost provider of independent credit
ratings , indices, risk evaluation, investment research, data and valuations.
SYSTAT is a high value, integrated desktop statistics and graphics
software package for Scientists, Researchers and Statisticians , enabling
customers to analyze their data, make meaningful discoveries, and present
their results very efficiently.

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48% $35,226 12. StatXact
provides at least one solution for every important nonparametric statistical
problem involving binary, categorical or continuous data.

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While the Financial sector
has soared over the past 10-1/2 years, returning a compounded 21.
"This joint development effort to create interoperability between SYSTAT
and the licensed StatXact components adds yet another milestone for Systat.

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"In this instance,
their risk has been rewarded with positive returns for eight of the past ten
years.standardandpoors.00% $36,893 13. For more information, visit
http: //www. We
have enhanced SYSTAT's architecture to integrate best of breed features of
other products to address newer segments.
Systat Software, Inc. Cytel Software's Pharma Division provides software , training and
consulting to clinical trial sponsors seeking to run their trials more
efficiently .

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Within the sectors,
Energy has seen 26 of 29 issues go up, while Information Technology has seen
59 issues rise this year and 69 fall.1, a 5-year projected growth-
rate of 15.7% institutionally held. The average yield for the
284 issues paying a dividend, within the S+P SmallCap 600, is 1 .18% $77,007 21.

Contact:
Sean McIntosh
Director of Marketing
Cytel Software Corporation
1-617-661-2011
sean@cytel.

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Standard + Poor's data also shows that the market gains are not uniform.0%, and is 62.87%.66% 21., headquartered in Point Richmond, California, is a
leading developer and supplier of award-winning scientific software and
services to the world's top companies, research centers and universities.

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Systat Software and Cytel Software Form Strategic Alliance

With over 65,000 users globally, SYSTAT has
become a global success.

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40% 9.05%
Health Care 72 12.94% $47,057 15.

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89% 6.37% 16. It covers every mainstream non-parametric
procedure, using a user-friendly GUI interface under Windows .

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S+P 600 600 100.
With approximately 6,500 employees located in 22 countries, Standard + Poor's
is an essential part of the world's financial infrastructure and has played a
leading role for more than 140 years in providing investors with the
independent benchmarks they need to feel more confident about their investment
and financial decisions., and RICHMOND, Calif .
Systat will license components of Cytel's award-winning StatXact software
to create a new module for SYSTAT specializing in exact statistical tests. This partnership will broaden our
customer base and bring the benefit of this computing power to the greater
scientific community," said Xiao -Wei Zhu, Vice President of Cytel Software
Corporation. For more information visit
http://www.

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2 %."
Currently, the average S+P SmallCap issue has a market value of $1,196
million, a 2005 estimated Operating P/E of 22.59% 2.50% $21,261 7.68% 13.17% 5.

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