May 21, 2008

NetAdvantage for .NET by Infragistics Named "Best of Tech Ed 2008 Developer Awards Finalist" by Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazines

Princeton, N.J. & Elstree, United Kingdom — May 21, 2008 — Infragistics today announced that its NetAdvantage for .NET was named as a finalist of the "Best of Tech Ed 2008 Developer Awards" in the Developer Tools category by Penton Media's Windows IT Pro® and SQL Server Magazine®.

The Best of Tech Ed 2008 Awards recognize companies who offer innovative products in the industry. The judges reviewed over 65 products and services submitted for the contest and chose 13 finalists to be interviewed at the Tech Ed 2008 Developers Conference in Orlando, FL. Winners will be announced on June 5 at an evening reception for all of the finalists and at www.WindowsITPro.com/awards on June 6.

"Choosing from such a wide variety of outstanding entries is a challenge every year, and the quality of this year's entries was particularly high," said Karen Forster, group editorial and strategy director for Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine. "The products selected as finalists clearly provide innovative solutions and strategic importance to the market, are competitively advantageous, and provide exceptional value to customers."

"Being recognized as a finalist by representatives from the largest independent Windows IT community is an honor for NetAdvantage for .NET," said Jason Beres, director of product management. "We're pleased that the judges recognized NetAdvantage for .NET as the ultimate user interface component toolset for rapidly building and styling compelling line of business application UIs for Windows® Forms and ASP.NET."

Infragistics NetAdvantage empowers developers to create user experiences across multiple platforms. NetAdvantage reduces development time, allowing enterprises to go to market faster and enterprise software development teams to concentrate on the business logic of the application rather than building reusable components themselves. For more detailed information on NetAdvantage for .NET visit http://www.infragistics.com/dotnet/netadvantage.aspx.

About Penton

Penton Media's Windows IT Pro, the largest independent Windows IT community in the world, has Windows IT Pro as its flagship print publication. Windows IT Pro also includes SQL Server Magazine and Office SharePoint Pro. The Windows IT Pro network has 2.5 million unique visitors to its Web sites each month, and more than one million subscribers who opt-in to one or more email newsletters. Windows IT Pro is the world's leading producer of custom road shows, paid conferences and paid workshops for Windows and SQL Server IT and developer professionals. For more information visit: www.windowsitpro.com

Penton Media, Inc. is the largest independent bsuiness-to-business media company in the U.S., serving more than six million business professionals every month. The company's market-leading brands are focused on 30 industries and include 113 trade magazines, 145 Web sites, 150 industry trade shows and conferences, and more than 500 information data products. Headquartered in New York City, the privately held company is owned by MidOcean Partners and U.S. Equity Partners II, an investment fund sponsored by Wasserstein & Co., LP, and its co-investors. For additional information on the company and its businesses, visit www.penton.com.

About Infragistics

Infragistics has been the market leader in the presentation layer components industry for over 18 years. Infragistics offers the most comprehensive user interface component toolsets available for Windows Forms, ASP.NET, WPF and JSF to empower developers to build and style immersive user experiences in line of business applications.  Infragistics also offers user interface testing tools, support, training and consulting services.  Infragistics continues to grow worldwide with offices in the US, UK, Japan, Bulgaria, France, Canada and India. For additional information on Infragistics, products and career opportunities, please visit www.infragistics.com or call us in the US at 1 (800) 231-8588 or 1 (609) 448-2000, in Europe, the Middle East, or Africa (EMEA) at +44 (0) 20 8387 1474, or in Japan at +81-3-5474-8040.

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