ECONOMICS

ANSYS, Inc. (NASDAQ:ANSS) announced today that the global innovator of simulation software and technologies aimed at optimizing customers' product development processes will hold its Annual Meeting of Stockholders on Thursday, May 6, 2004 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time at the Southpointe Club located at Southpointe, 360 Southpointe Blvd. in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. The Company has fixed the close of business on March 9, 2004 as the record date for determining whether stockholders are entitled to notice of, and to vote at, the Annual Meeting and any adjournments or postponements thereof.