Altova XMLSpy Named "Best of Tech—Ed 2007" Winner by Windows IT Pro, SQL Server Magazine and Office & Sharepoint Pro.com

Business Wire, July 10, 2007

BEVERLY, Mass. -- Altova[R] ( http://www.altova.com ), creator of XMLSpy[R] and other leading XML, data management, UML, and Web services tools, today announced that XMLSpy was named as winner of the "Best of Tech*Ed Awards 2007" in the Developer Tools and Technologies category by Penton Media's Windows IT Pro([R]), SQL Server Magazine([R]) and Office & Sharepoint Pro.com.

The judges reviewed over 260 IT products and services submitted for the contest and chose 45 finalists to be interviewed at Tech*Ed in Orlando, Fla. Winners were announced at an evening reception at the Peabody Hotel Orlando.

"Altova XMLSpy is the established leader in the XML development market," said Michael Otey, Technical Director for Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine, as he conferred the award. "In the latest release, XMLSpy 2007 adds support for the new Microsoft Office 2007 default document format - Office Open XML - to the product's already impressive feature set. XMLSpy addresses virtually all aspects of XML development and is also fully integrated with Visual Studio," he added.

"We are thrilled to have XMLSpy named Best of Microsoft Tech*Ed," said Tim Hale, Director of Marketing for Altova. "The exclusive capability of XMLSpy 2007 to extract, edit, query, and transform XML data from within Microsoft Word documents and Excel spreadsheets provides unprecedented opportunities to programmatically re-purpose vast amounts of valuable business content, and the editors at Penton Media have recognized the significance of this new feature to Microsoft developers and their clients."

Altova XMLSpy 2007, the industry standard XML editor, is currently available with pricing starting at (USD) $499. XMLSpy may be purchased directly from the Altova Online Shop at: https://shop.altova.com

To download a 30-day free trial of XMLSpy 2007, visit: http://www.altova.com/download.html

About Altova

Altova accelerates application development and data management projects with software and solutions that enhance productivity and maximize results. As an innovative, customer-focused company and the creator of XMLSpy and other leading XML, data management, UML, and Web services tools, Altova is the choice of over 3 million clients worldwide, including more than 91 percent of the Fortune 500 companies. Enabling customers ranging from vast development teams in the world's largest organizations to progressive one-person shops, Altova's line of software tools fulfills a broad spectrum of business needs. Altova is an active member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and Object Management Group (OMG) and is committed to delivering standards-based platform-independent solutions that are powerful, affordable, and easy to use. Altova was founded in 1992 and has headquarters in Beverly, Massachusetts and Vienna, Austria. Visit Altova on the Web at: http://www.altova.com

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