Mark Logic Honored as CODiE Awards Finalist for Fifth Year in a Row

SAN CARLOS, Calif. — March 9, 2009 — Mark Logic Corporation, a leading provider of infrastructure software for information applications, today announced it has been named as a finalist in the Software and information Industry Association’s (SIIA) 24th annual CODiE Awards in two categories. The newest version of the company’s flagship product,Mark Logic Server, is a finalist for “Best Database Management Solution” and theMark Logic CEO Blogis a finalist for “Best Corporate Blog.”

Established in 1986, the CODiE Awards celebrate outstanding achievement and vision in the software, digital information, and education technology industries. The CODiE Awards hold the distinction of being the industry’s only peer reviewed awards program, providing a unique opportunity for companies to evaluate and honor each others work.

More than 850 nominations were received this year for recognition of best of breed products and services across 71 categories. “The competition is particularly steep this year, making selection as a CODiE Finalist a real achievement,” said Ken Wasch, president, SIIA. “All the companies on this year’s list of CODiE Finalists should feel justifiably proud of their accomplishment in making it to this stage, and much excitement to look forward to regarding the upcoming CODiE Awards voting!”

“We are honored to be a finalist in these two highly competitive categories. The database market continues to evolve in exciting ways, and the innovations that come with XML mean organizations can now do things they previously could only dream about. Mark Logic Server gives customers the ability to build extraordinary content applications,” said Tracy Eiler, vice president of marketing, Mark Logic. “In the ‘Best Corporate Blog’ category, it is great to see our CEO Dave Kellogg’s blog be recognized. His natural intellectual curiosity and provocative point of view, we believe, generates healthy debate in the industry.”

Winners will be announced at the 24th Annual CODiE Awards Gala which will be held on May 5, 2009 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, Calif. For a complete list of 2009 CODiE Awards finalists, please visithttp://www.siia.net/codies/2009/finalist_list.asp

About Mark Logic Corporation

Mark Logic Corporation is a leading provider of information infrastructure software, serving industries including media, government, financial services, and others. The company's flagship product, MarkLogic Server, is used by customers to enable a wide variety of information applications including custom publishing, search-based applications, content analytics, unified information access, metadata catalogs, and threat intelligence systems. MarkLogic Server is based on patented innovations and provides state-of-the-art features including location awareness, real-time search, and a shared-nothing cluster architecture that supports high performance against petabyte-scale databases. Mark Logic is headquartered in San Carlos, California with field offices in New York, Washington, London, Boston, Austin, and Frankfurt. The company is privately held with investors Sequoia Capital and Tenaya Capital. For more information, to download a trial version, or to read the award-winningKellblog, written by Mark Logic CEO Dave Kellogg, go towww.marklogic.com.