SAN MATEO, Calif., Feb. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Cape Clear(R) Software, the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Platform leader delivering on the promise of SOA, announces that its ESB Platform has been selected as a finalist in the Enterprise Tools category of the 17th Annual Jolt Product Excellence Awards. The Jolt Awards hold a prestigious place among other technology industry honors, based on the competition's intense product investigation process.

"Our ESB Platform has simplified, unified, and expanded tooling for enhanced developer productivity, better support for the latest open standards, and top-notch enterprise qualities of service - all keys to success in SOA," said Katherine Barnhisel, Cape Clear Software's vice president of marketing. "Each year, the superior quality of nominations means fierce competition, making the Jolt Awards such a coveted honor. We are thrilled that our ESB Platform's quality earned it a spot among the innovative companies on this year's Jolt Product Excellence Awards finalists list."

Each year, the Jolt Product Excellence Awards, sponsored by CMP Technology's Dr. Dobb's Journal, acknowledge the products, books and technologies that "jolt" the industry with their significance. This year, 106 finalists in 17 categories were chosen by a team of esteemed editors, columnists, and industry gurus. The awards ceremony will take place on March 21, 2007 at the 20th Software Development Conference & Expo West at the Santa Clara Convention Center.

Cape Clear is the only ESB Platform built for the realities of SOA, delivering greater flexibility and lower total cost of ownership. Cape Clear enables increased productivity through a unified product, ensuring SOA best practices and ease of use, and is the only ESB Platform that can fully support a customer's existing and future heterogeneous environments. Cape Clear is the most widely-adopted ESB, delivering proven performance, reliability, availability, and scalability for large-scale deployments.

For more information on Cape Clear's leading ESB software, please visit http://www.capeclear.com/products/index.shtml or contact sales at sales@capeclear.com or at (888) CAPE 439. To download a copy of the Cape Clear ESB, please visit http://www.capeclear.com/download/.

About Cape Clear Software

Cape Clear is the ESB Platform Leader helping companies deliver on the promise of SOA. More than 275 customers worldwide leverage Cape Clear's unified ESB Platform to support and integrate their heterogeneous application environments with confidence. Recognized by Gartner, Forrester, and IT Week as the leading ESB, Cape Clear's high-performance ESB Platform delivers proven reliability, availability, and scalability for large-scale SOA deployments. Founded in 1999, Cape Clear Software is a privately held firm with headquarters in San Mateo, CA, and offices in Atlanta, GA, Chicago, IL, Denver, CO, Waltham, MA, Dublin, Ireland, and London, UK. http://www.capeclear.com/

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