PRINCETON, New Jersey and SOFIA, Bulgaria, January 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- World's largest component vendor taps into Eastern European Talent

Infragistics, the world leader in presentation layer development tools, announced today the opening of a new office in Sofia, Bulgaria which will house teams for .Net and Java development of user interface component toolsets. The Bulgarian operation becomes Infragistics' ninth office worldwide. Other Infragistics offices include the United States, United Kingdom, India and Japan.

"We continue to expand our worldwide team to draw upon leading talent in all parts of the world," said Infragistics CEO Dean Guida. "We've seen significant growth in the component tool market in the past few years and with top developers we can continue to bring our customers the most comprehensive and innovative toolsets available."

Infragistics has hired Didka Duneva to be the managing director of Infragistics Bulgaria. Prior to joining Infragistics, Ms. Duneva was co-founder and CEO of Chaos Group Ltd, a provider of software solutions for the visual effects industry. Earlier in her career, Ms. Duneva managed teams and projects in the 3D graphics domain for international companies in the electronic gaming and CG industries.

This week, on January 10th, Infragistics Director of Product Management Jason Beres will host the Sofiadev.net User Group (www.sofiadev.org) in Sofia at 7:00 PM. He will be talking to the .NET community about Silverlight. For more information, call +359-491-4360 or go to www.infragistics.com/bg.

About Infragistics

Infragistics has been the market leader in the presentation layer components industry for over 18 years. With a comprehensive portfolio of multi-platform Enterprise Software products and services, Infragistics has achieved global reach in nearly every Fortune 2000 company. Infragistics empowers developers to build and style great application user interfaces for Windows Forms, ASP.NET, WPF and JSF, and additionally offers user interface test tools, support, training and consulting services.

With a history of success and a corporate culture focused on delighting customers, Infragistics continues to grow and prosper. Infragistics is constantly innovating and aggressively recruiting world-wide to fuel new ideas in offices in the US, UK, Japan, France, Canada and India. For additional information on Infragistics, products and career opportunities, please visit www.infragistics.com or call us in the US at 1-609-448-2000, in Europe, the Middle East, or Africa (EMEA) at +44-(0)-20-8387-1474, or in Japan at +81-3-5474-8040.

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Worldwide: Dawn Colossi of Infragistics Inc., +1-609-448-2000, ext. 153, dcolossi@infragistics.com; Europe, Middle East or Africa (EMEA): Peter Lindsey, Infragistics Europe, +44-(0)-20-8387-1475, PeterL@infragistics.com; Japan: Didka Duneva, Infragistics Bulgaria, +359-491-4360, didka@infragistics.com