Director/PDMR Shareholding

5 July 2006

The Sage Group plc ("the Company")

DIRECTORS' SHAREHOLDINGS

The Company received notification on 4 July 2006 that Michael Jackson, Chairman
of the Board of Directors of the Company, sold 100,000 Ordinary shares of 1p
each in the Company at a price of 236.00 pence per share on 4 July 2006.