Fractal Technologies Named As Finalist for Computerworld Honors Program 21st Century Achievement Award in Environment Energy and Agriculture

9 May, 2005
Winners to be Announced at Washington, D.C. Gala on June 6, 2005

Fractal Technologies has been named as a finalist for the coveted 21^st Century Achievement Award from the Computerworld Honors Program for its visionary use of information technology in the Environment Energy & Agriculture category.

Mr. Joseph W. Alsop, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Progress Software Corporation and member of The Chairmen's Committee nominated Fractal Technologies in recognition of its contributions to the global information technology revolution and its positive impact on society. The winners will be announced at an awards gala at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. on June 6, 2005.

Fractal Technologies was one of 160 laureates selected by the program's Chairmen's Committee study from over 300 nominations to submit a case study that officially became part of the prestigious Computerworld Honors Collection this past April when the 2005 Collection was formally presented to the Global Archives. Of these 160 laureates, Fractal Technologies is one of 48 finalists, in 10 categories, chosen by a panel of distinguished judges to attend the June 6 event.

"The Computerworld Honors 21^st Century Achievement Awards are presented to individuals around the world who have made outstanding progress and whose visionary use of information technology produces and promotes positive social, economic and educational change," said Bob Carrigan, president and CEO of IDG's Computerworld, the Voice of IT Management, and chairman of the Chairmen's Committee of the Computerworld Honors Program. "The finalists for these awards along with the laureate innovators represented in the Honors Collection have been recognized by the leading IT industry chairmen as true revolutionaries in their fields."

The 2005 Collection, which will be archived in libraries, museums, and academic and research institutions around the world, will serve as primary source material for scholars and as a resource for individuals who hope to use information technology to create solutions to address their own challenges. The collection is comprised of case studies from 54 countries.

The case study outlines how Fractal Technologies has developed a new generation information technology solution that is able to manage, distribute, display and interrogate complex three-dimensional data as well as other, more traditional types of information.

Case studies from the 2005 Computerworld Honors Collection will be available at http://www.cwheroes.org, the official site of the Computerworld Honors Program, where the entire Collection is available to scholars, researchers and the general public worldwide. In addition, the Collection is distributed annually to the Honors Program's Archival Partners around the world. These partners include some of the world's finest research and scholarly institutions, each of which has generously agreed to include the Collection in its archives.

According to Dan Morrow, a founding director and chief historian for the Honors Program, "This year's finalists truly demonstrate how technology can significantly impact industries throughout the country. The accomplishments they have achieved through the use of technology are outstanding historical contributions to the information technology revolution in every sense of the word."

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Jenny Archibald (Fractal Technologies) and fellow Progess Software Partners at the Computerworld Honors Program 21st Century Achievement Award dinner, 6th June 2005.