Result of Conditional Vendor Placing

Sage Group PLC
12 January 2000


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THE SAGE GROUP PLC


The Sage Group plc ('Sage')

Result of Conditional Vendor Placing

Further  to  this morning's announcement of a conditional
vendor placing to finance Sage's recommended tender offer
for  Best  Software  Inc., Deutsche Bank  AG  London  has
successfully  placed 43,707,488 new shares on  behalf  of
Sage.   The  strike price of 680p per share represents  a
1.5 per cent. discount to the closing mid market price on
11 January 2000.


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