Industry Recognitions and Awards

Newton, MA, June 17, 2009 - Telerik, the leading vendor of developer tools and components for .NET, is proud to announce that for the third year in a row, its products have been recognized as a winner in SD Times 100 Awards in the Components and Libraries Category.

For the 7th year SD Times recognizes the top innovators and leaders in multiple software development industry areas. The participants were nominated by BZ Media's editors, as well as by an expert group of writers, conference faculty and analysts. As in previous years, readers of SD Times were also welcome to nominate companies, projects and individuals.

"The software development industry has always been led by innovation, and that’s true even in today’s challenging economic climate" said Alan Zeichick, Editorial Director of BZ Media's SD Times. "When choosing the 2009 SD Times 100 winners, we carefully considered each organization's products and services, reputation with enterprise development managers, and the new ideas and thought leadership that it has brought to the industry. Thanks to companies like Telerik, the art of software development continues to advance at a rapid pace."

“We feel honored to be recognized as “the best of the best” in our industry” said Svetozar Georgiev, Telerik CEO. “This award proves that the direction we have chosen is the right one and we have managed to meet or even exceed their expectations. Here at Telerik we have always focused on our clients and let them be the driving force behind our business. This is why our products have achieved such high quality and are recognized as the industry standard. We would like to take the opportunity and thank the editors of SD times and all our supporters without whom this wouldn’t be possible.”

Telerik is a winner of numerous technical and business awards. The broad portfolio of the company includes UI components for ASP.NET AJAX, Windows Forms, WPF and Silverlight, as well as .NET Reporting, .NET CMS and Testing tool.

About SD Times
BZ Media LLC® is a high-tech media company combining the best of print and Web-based publishing, offering industry-leading magazines, newspapers, Web sites and conferences.

BZ Media’s SD Times® is the twice-monthly newspaper of record for the software development industry. SD Times reaches more than 60,000 subscribers in 131 countries. SD Times was recognized by Media Business Magazine as the fastest-growing IT publication in 2007.

About Telerik
Telerik empowers its customers to create compelling app experiences across any screen. Our end-to-end platform uniquely combines industry-leading UI tools with cloud services to simplify the entire app development lifecycle. Telerik tools and services can be adopted individually or as a platform and seamlessly integrated with other popular developer solutions. More than 130,000 customers from 40,000 organizations in 94 countries depend on Telerik products, including more than 450 of the Fortune 500®, academic institutions, governments and non-profits. For additional information about Telerik, please visit telerik.com or follow @telerik on Twitter.

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Press Contacts:

Erica Burns
Telerik, Inc.
Tel: 888.365.2779 #154
Erica.Burns@telerik.com