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BEVERLY, Mass., March 18, 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, and the Altova MissionKit received 2007 ComponentSource Bestselling Product Awards. Altova was also presented with the Top 25 Bestselling Publisher Award. The ComponentSource Bestselling Awards are given annually to the Top 100 Bestselling Publishers and Top 100 Bestselling Products based on the total sales dollar value of orders placed by customers during the year.

“We are honored to be recognized by ComponentSource as the leader in XML and software development tools,” said Alexander Falk, president and CEO for Altova. “To be chosen by the development community two years in a row is a testament of our ability to deliver software that continually meets our customers’ needs as the industry evolves.”

Altova XMLSpy is the industry’s best-selling 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.

The Altova MissionKit is available in multiple configurations. The Altova MissionKit for Software Architects provides users with UML architecture and database query / design capabilities in addition to XML development and data integration functionality. The Altova MissionKit for XML Developers gives XML developers more sophisticated XML development tools, including data integration and XSLT stylesheet design capabilities.

To download a 30-day free trial of XMLSpy 2008 or the MissionKit 2008, visit: http://www.altova.com/download.html

For more information on the 2007 ComponentSource Bestselling Awards visit: http://www.componentsource.com/services/publisher/awards-2007-product.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 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

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