Montreal, Quebec - 22 March 2005 - MetaQuest Software Inc. announced that Census 6.0 was selected as a winner for a Software Development Productivity Award for the 15th Annual Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity Awards in the Test-Defect Tracking Tools category.

Winners of the 15th Annual Software Development Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity Awards were announced on Wednesday, March 16, by the editors of Software Development magazine. The Jolt awards ceremony was held at the SD West Conference & Exposition at the Santa Clara Convention Center in California's Silicon Valley.

"The 15th Annual Jolt and Productivity Awards show how agility has now gone deeper than just a buzz word: One of the tenets of agility is an emphasis on iterative, frequent testing, and we now see how, as a result, testing has become increasingly interesting to developers and tool makers. In fact, we added two testing categories this year in response to demand including the Defect Tracking Tools category," said SD Editor in Chief Alexandra Weber Morales.

Ralph Akhras, Vice President of Research and Development at MetaQuest remarks, "It is extremely gratifying to have a product that is recognized by our industry. The defect tracking marketplace has many excellent products, so to win a Productivity Award is truly an honour. This award is a tribute to our employees' commitment to delivering software releases that continue to improve our customers' productivity in the software development and test arenas."

More information on the Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity Awards is available at www.sdmagazine.com.

About Census
Census is a Web-based tool for tracking and managing issues such as bugs, defects, support calls, and enhancement requests. Census provides an innovative Web-based interface that behaves like a Windows application, not like a set of static HTML pages. This makes Census easier to adopt into an issue tracking process, because there's less learning curve, and less resistance to change.

Census includes role-based workflow rules and a Web-based workflow rule editor, automatic e-mail notifications, Web-based access to Visual SourceSafe projects, and Web-based reporting powered by Crystal Reports. Census can be extensively customized through point-and-click editors, which allow you to define workflow rules, customize fields, and create custom Web views for specific groups of users. More advanced customizations, such as adding custom behaviours and branding the user interface, can be accomplished using Visual Basic, JavaScript, DHTML, and CSS.

About MetaQuest
MetaQuest Software, a member of the Vector Networks Group since October 2001, provides solutions for PC desktop management, software development, and technical support.

MetaQuest technologies, which include PC diagnostics, application self-healing, and Web-based issue tracking, are available as standalone products (Census for issue tracking and Triage for eSupport), or as modules in Vector Network's flagship product, PC-Duo Enterprise.

Further information on MetaQuest can be found at www.metaquest.com.

About Vector Networks
Vector Networks Group specializes in the development and marketing of Windows-based desktop management software for the enterprise market. Through Vector's ever-increasing reseller channel and direct sales, the company services customers in over 40 countries with software installed on over 3.5 million PCs.

Further information on Vector Networks can be found at www.vector-networks.com.

About Software Development magazine
Software Development is the leading magazine for software development managers. The definitive source to empower those who implement and manage teams, technologies, practices and tools integral to successful development projects, Software Development is a monthly publication reaches over 100,000 subscribers. Software Development readers, who average more than 14 years' experience in the field, are trailblazing managers who care passionately about enlivening and expediting the task of delivering successful software on time and under budget.