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Home:Company:Press Releases :May 21, 2007 DataDirect Technologies Leads the Commercial XQuery Market with Launch of DataDirect XQuery 3.0Latest Release Provides Full Update Support for Relational Data, Easy Integration for Web Services and Additional Enhancements for Performance and Scalability BEDFORD, MA – 05/21/2007 – DataDirect Technologies, the unparalleled leader in data connectivity and mainframe integration and an operating company of Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS), today released version 3.0 of the DataDirect XQuery® product, an XQuery processor that enables software developers to access and query XML, relational data, SOAP messages, EDI messages, legacy data, or a combination of data sources and provides full update support for relational data. Server agnostic and database independent, DataDirect XQuery version 3.0 is an enterprise-grade XQuery processor that supports the W3C XQuery Recommendation of January 2007 and builds upon the technical innovation and proven superiority of its previous versions – delivering fast, reliable and scalable XQuery support. DataDirect XQuery vastly simplifies and enhances the performance of combining and processing different types of data (relational, XML, legacy, EDI, and SOAP messages) in heterogeneous environments and is recommended for Java developers working with data integration, XML-based data exchange, XML-driven Web sites and XML publishing application scenarios. Success at the National Highway Safety Administration “With DataDirect XQuery we were able to reduce code complexity, simplify code maintenance and improve performance and scalability,” said Juan Carlos Alfonso, senior software engineer at Core Computer Group. “What once took 50 Java classes and 150 SQL statements was reduced to just a single Java class and seven XQueries using the DataDirect XQuery product. Moreover, a large extraction from 500MB of XML data intended for SAS analysis took significantly less time compared to using different methods.” DataDirect Technologies is one of the few companies to successfully complete the W3C XML Query Test Suite, achieving greater than 99 percent compliance and near-perfect results. Through its ongoing work with standards organizations like the W3C’s XQuery Working Group and XQJ Working Group, DataDirect Technologies is a landmark contributor to the development of important emerging industry standards and is uniquely positioned to develop its own products in alignment with them. As such, DataDirect XQuery version 3.0, like its predecessors before, supports the latest XQuery for Java™ API (XQJ), including enhancements in document projection and streaming for improved performance and scalability. “As the industry’s most well supported, robust commercial XQuery implementation, release 3.0 of DataDirect XQuery offers even greater functionality and efficiencies for building advanced applications and integrating data within service-oriented architectures (SOAs),” said John Goodson, vice president of product operations at DataDirect Technologies. “DataDirect XQuery enables developers to realize one of the key promises of SOA – complete data transparency. All data sources are available through a single standards-based query language.” Update Relational Databases with XQuery SOA and Web Services Integration About DataDirect Technologies DataDirect Technologies is the software industry’s only comprehensive provider of software for connecting the world’s most critical business applications to data and services, running on any platform, using proven and emerging standards. Developers worldwide depend on DataDirect® products to connect their applications to an unparalleled range of data sources using standards-based interfaces such as ODBC, JDBC™ and ADO.NET, XQuery and SOAP. More than 300 leading independent software vendors and thousands of enterprises rely on DataDirect Technologies to simplify and streamline data connectivity for distributed systems and to reduce the complexity of mainframe integration. DataDirect Technologies is an operating company of Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS). For more information, visit www.datadirect.com. DataDirect and DataDirect XQuery are trademarks or registered trademarks of Progress Software Corporation or one of its subsidiaries or affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. Java and all Java based marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. Any other trademarks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.
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