BEVERLY, MA–( EMWNews – April 7, 2008) – Altova® (http://www.altova.com), creator of

XMLSpy®, the industry-leading XML

editor, and other popular XML, data management, UML, and Web services

tools, today announced that Altova

XMLSpy has received the 2007 Programmer’s Paradise Riding the Crest®

Award in the XML Tools category. Programmer’s Paradise®, a subsidiary of

Wayside Technology Group™, Inc., is the leading independent marketer of

software development and infrastructure tools for technology professionals,

offering thousands of products that aid programmer efficiency. The Riding

the Crest Awards, given annually, are determined by total sales in each

category featuring at least three competitive products.

“It is an honor to have XMLSpy recognized again this year by Programmer’s

Paradise and the development community as the best tool for working with

XML,” said Alexander Falk, president and CEO for Altova. “We look to our

users for feedback when adding new enhancements to our tools; and it is

this customer-focused approach that gives them the functionality they need

and allows XMLSpy to maintain its leadership position year after year.”

Altova XMLSpy is the industry’s best-selling XML editor and XML development

environment for modeling, editing, transforming, and debugging XML-related

technologies, including XML, XML Schema, DTD, XSLT,

XPath, XQuery, SOAP, WSDL, and more. It offers the top XML editor,

schema designer, code generator, converters, debuggers, and profilers.

XMLSpy is also used to automatically generate class files from XML Schemas

in multiple programming languages (Java, C#, C++), and it provides support

for Office Open

XML (OOXML) in Microsoft® Office documents and pureXML in IBM® DB2® 9

databases.

“For the sixth consecutive year, Altova XMLSpy has been the tool of choice

for development teams working with XML technology,” said Richard Bevis,

vice president of marketing for Wayside Technology Group. “Altova’s

knowledge and experience working with XML is second-to-none in the

industry, and winning the award again this year shows that the development

community agrees.”

Altova XMLSpy 2008 is currently available with pricing starting at $539

(USD). XMLSpy may be purchased stand-alone or as part of the Altova MissionKit 2008™

product bundle — both are available directly from the Altova Online Shop

at: https://shop.altova.com.

To download a 30-day free trial of XMLSpy 2008 or the MissionKit 2008,

visit: http://www.altova.com/download.html

A complete list of Riding the Crest Award winners can be viewed on the

Programmer’s Paradise Web site at:

http://www.programmers.com/ridingthecrest

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 91 percent of the

Fortune 500. 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

Altova, XMLSpy, MapForce, StyleVision, and MissionKit are trademarks and/or

registered trademarks of Altova GmbH in the United States and/or other

countries. The names of and reference to other companies and products

mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

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