PLEASANTON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 3, 2005--GoldMine® 6.7, the award-winning solution for business relationship management, team-based contact management and sales forces automation from FrontRange Solutions, today was named a Midmarket "Product of the Year" 2005 by CMP Media's VARBusiness magazine.

The biweekly magazine that provides strategic insight to technology integrators solicited input from information-technology (IT) vendors and solution providers to determine which products and services were best for midmarket customers -- companies with between 100 and 999 employees. Editors narrowed the field to those that best meet midmarket needs and represent a broad spectrum of technology areas from security solutions to servers to business applications. Entries were carefully considered and reviewed by VARBusiness editors who selected only 100 of the more than 400 nominated products.

GoldMine is featured and profiled in the special May 2 VARBusiness "State of the Midmarket" issue.

"Our readers tell us that the middle market is one of the fastest-growing IT categories today," says VARBusiness Publisher Robert C. DeMarzo. "GoldMine is one that best meets that segment's needs."

"This recognition by VARBusiness magazine is particularly gratifying because it validates over 15 years of expertise in CRM and service management solutions for the midmarket," said Michael McCloskey, CEO of FrontRange Solutions. "It also supports our ongoing commitment to offering best-practice, out-of-the-box solutions to meet our customers' unique and changing requirements in businesses of all sizes."

About VARBusiness Magazine

For the past 18 years, VARBusiness' strategic resources have been the gateway to the solution-provider community. VARBusiness provides unique strategic business and technology insight for solution providers through industry-defining research, in-depth editorial, channel events and innovative Web services, enabling these IT professionals to make educated decisions for their businesses, partnerships and customers. VARBusiness has been the recipient of numerous industry awards for both editorial content and design. Additional information about VARBusiness products, events and services, is available on the magazine's Web site at http://www.varbusiness.com/.

About FrontRange Solutions

FrontRange Solutions develops award-winning software and solutions used by more than 130,000 companies and over 1.2 million users worldwide to manage a wide variety of business relationships and provide exceptional service. FrontRange product families, designed specifically for small-to-medium-enterprise (SME) and distributed enterprise organizations include: GoldMine® for business relationship management, team-based contact management and sales forces automation solutions; IT Service Management with HEAT® and ITIL® standards-based modules for complete service management; and IP Contact Center for reduced telephony costs and increased agent productivity, streamlined customer service and communications; and Infrastructure Management, which provides the ability to optimize the full lifecycle of a company's assets. Customers representing 44 percent of the Fortune 100 and 76 percent of the FTSE 100, include Coca-Cola, Shell Oil, Prudential Securities, Electricite de France, Mack Trucks, Campbell Soup, Avaya, Bechtel Corp, Bank of America, and Turner News Network. For more information, call 800-776-7889 or visit http://www.frontrange.com/.

GoldMine, HEAT and other FrontRange Solutions products, brands and trademarks are property of FrontRange Solutions USA Inc. and/or its affiliates in the United States and/or other countries. Other products, brands and trademarks are property of their respective owners/companies.