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The Sant Corporation Named a Finalist in the 6th Annual eWEEK Excellence Awards Program

CINCINNATI; April 11, 2006... The Sant Corporation today announces that eWEEK, a Ziff Davis Media publication and one of the IT industry’s leading enterprise magazines, has named Sant Suite 7.2 a finalist in eWEEK’s 6th Annual Excellence Awards program for the Enterprise Collaboration category. Winners will be announced in May and honored at a special ceremony on May 23 in Boston, Mass. Analysis of the winning products and services will be published in a special report in the June 19th edition of eWEEK and on www.eweek.com.

“We are honored that Sant Suite is recognized by eWEEK as one of the best enterprise collaboration solutions”, said Lewis Miller, president of The Sant Corporation. “The unmatched capabilities, flexibility, and IT friendly architecture makes Sant Suite the ideal enterprise solution for sales document generation and collaboration. We will continue to develop innovative applications that are easy to access, simple to use, and facilitate customer success.”

The eWEEK Excellence Awards program provides enterprise professionals with a comprehensive benchmark for assessing a wide range of technology products and services. Entry evaluation is directed by a panel of experts including eWEEK Labs analysts and eWEEK Corporate Partners – senior enterprise IT professionals acting as reader representatives.

"A high level of innovation—both from start-ups and industry stalwarts was what impressed us most about this year’s field of entries,” said Eric Lundquist, eWEEK Editorial Director. “It’s clear from the hundreds of entries evaluated by the Excellence Awards judges that vendors are responding quickly and effectively to the increasingly complex—and constantly changing—demands put on enterprise IT managers."

The elite group of finalists includes industry leaders such as Adobe Systems, Microsoft, Salesforce.com, Gateway, EMC, Symantec, Citrix Systems, McAfee, and others. “We are proud to be associated with such an impressive group of finalists,” said Miller.

eWEEK is the essential technology information source for builders of enterprise infrastructure. eWEEK helps its readers successfully evaluate, deploy and leverage new technology solutions for competitive advantage. The publication and the eWEEK.com web site deliver breaking news, technology evaluations, and strategic analysis on the technologies, platforms and trends that affect enterprise-wide computing.

Products and services were awarded in the following categories:

• Analytics & Reporting
• Application Development
• Business Integration Systems
• Business Relationship Management
• Desktop & Mobile Hardware
• E-Business Foundations
• E-Mail Management & Security
• Enterprise Collaboration
• Enterprise Storage Hardware
• Enterprise Storage Software
• IT Quality Assurance Tools
• Productivity Applications
• Server Hardware
• Networking & Management Tools
• Networking Infrastructure
• System & Application Management
• Authentication & User Management
• Network Data-stream Protection
• Vulnerability Assessment & Remediation

About The Sant Corporation

The Sant Corporation is a provider of proven software and expertise that improves sales effectiveness. We help companies who provide value-based solutions win more business by accelerating the production of persuasive proposals, RFP responses, presentations, and related documents.

Sant is a privately-held corporation headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, and has sales offices in North America, the United Kingdom, and Australia. For more information, please visit www.santcorp.com.

About Ziff Davis Media Inc.

Ziff Davis Media is a leading integrated media company serving the technology and videogame markets. The Company is an information services provider of technology media including publications, websites, conferences, events, eSeminars, eNewsletters, custom publishing, list rentals, research and market intelligence. In the United States, the Company publishes 7 magazines including PC Magazine, eWEEK, CIO Insight, Baseline, Electronic Gaming Monthly, Computer Gaming World and Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine. The Company exports the power of its brands internationally, with publications in 40 countries and 20 languages. Ziff Davis leverages its content on the Internet with a network of highly-targeted technology and gaming sites including PCMag.com, eWEEK.com, ExtremeTech.com and 1UP.com. The Company also produces highly-targeted b-to-b and consumer technology events including DigitalLife. With its main headquarters and PC Magazine Labs based in New York, Ziff Davis Media also has offices and lab facilities in the San Francisco and Boston markets. Additional information is available at www.ziffdavis.com.