Acquisition

3 July 2006

Sage to complete acquisition of leading Malaysian software vendor UBS

Further to its 23 May announcement that it had acquired a majority (50.2%)
shareholding in UBS Corporation Berhad ("UBS") and made an offer for the
remaining shares, both at 0.98 Ringitt per share, The Sage Group plc ("Sage")
has now received acceptances for 98.5% of UBS shares. The offer has therefore
now become unconditional and the 1.5% of shares not tendered will be
compulsorily acquired for 0.98 Ringitt per share.

The shares under offer will be purchased for a consideration of approximately £
7m which, in addition to the approximately £7m consideration for the initial
majority shareholding, results in a total purchase consideration for the
acquisition of approximately £14m.

UBS, with over 100,000 customers, is the leading vendor of business management
software for small and medium-sized businesses in Malaysia.

*Financial information calculated on the basis of £1 = 6.84 Ringgit.

Enquiries

The Sage Group plc [phone]

Paul Walker, Chief Executive

Paul Harrison, Finance Director

Phil Branston, Investor Relations

Tulchan [phone]

Julie Foster

Kirstie Hamilton