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PARISHSOFT ACQUIRES THE CATHOLIC SOFTWARE COMPANY

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 26, 2006
Contact: ParishSOFT
Michael Cusick, Vice President of Sales and Marketing
Phone: 866.930.4774

Ann Arbor, MI - ParishSOFT, the nation's fastest growing church management software company, has acquired the assets of The Catholic Software Company, officials from both companies announced today.

According to ParishSOFT President and CEO William Pressprich, ParishSOFT will now be serving the customers of The Catholic Software Company, provider of the ParishOffice and ParishLite parish management software programs.

"We are pleased to welcome ParishOffice and ParishLite customers, and we will be extending a special offer to them, complete with data conversion, training, and the full resources of our dedicated support team," Pressprich said. "We are committed to ensuring that their transition to ParishSOFT is a smooth one."

Rob Rhodes, President of The Catholic Software Company, said, "I have admired ParishSOFT for several years and am confident they will be a great fit for our customers. ParishSOFT has a very high customer satisfaction rate, and their Catholic-based management software is so intuitive that our users will experience little or no downtime as they transfer systems."

According to Pressprich and Rhodes, current users of the ParishOffice and ParishLite products will be invited to join the thousands of parishes that have already made the switch to ParishSOFT. Teams from ParishSOFT and The Catholic Software Company are working closely to ensure a thorough data conversion, and ParishSOFT support has studied the operating conventions and inner workings of the ParishOffice and ParishLite programs to help new ParishSOFT users get up and running as quickly as possible.

About ParishSOFT

Founded in 1998, ParishSOFT offers a complete suite of church management software and web services that streamline operations, increase stewardship, foster collaboration, and improve communications. ParishSOFT currently serves 2,500 Catholic parishes and 25 arch/dioceses.

This is the second acquisition for ParishSOFT, which acquired The Software Library™ and its Church Management Systems (CMS) products in 2003 to add financial and accounting components to its suite of church management software and web solutions. In January 2005, ParishSOFT announced a strategic partnership with Our Sunday Visitor (OSV), the nation's largest Catholic producer of church offering envelopes as well as one of the leading publishers of Catholic periodicals, books and religious education materials.

For more information, contact Michael Cusick, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, 866.930.4774 or visit www.parishsoft.com.