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INDUSTRY-LEADING XML DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT EARNS THE 2006 PROGRAMMER’S PARADISE RIDING THE CREST AWARD

BEVERLY, Mass., April 13, 2007 – Altova® (www.altova.com), creator of XMLSpy® and other leading XML, data management, UML, and Web services tools, today announced that Altova XMLSpy has received the prestigious 2006 Programmer’s Paradise Riding the Crest® Award in the XML Tools category. Programmer’s Paradise®, a subsidiary of Wayside Technology Group™, Inc. is an award-winning marketer of technical software and hardware, and offers thousands of products that aid programmer efficiency. The award, given annually, recognizes the products that its customers have selected most often and “ride high on the wave” above all others. This marks the fifth consecutive year that XMLSpy has been named the best-selling XML development tool.

Altova XMLSpy is the world’s leading XML editor and the industry-standard development environment for modeling, editing, transforming, and debugging XML-related technologies (XML, XML Schema, DTD, XSLT, XPath, XQuery, SOAP, WSDL, and more). XMLSpy is also used to automatically generate class files from XML Schemas in multiple programming languages (Java, C#, C++). For J2EE, Eclipse, .NET, and database developers that need the latest XML, Web services, and database technologies, XMLSpy is the ultimate productivity enhancer.

“In winning its fifth consecutive award it is evident that Altova XMLSpy continues to be the tool of choice for XML development,” said Jeff Largiader, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Programmer’s Paradise. “Being selected by its peers for five consecutive years is a testament to Altova’s ability to provide its customers with the most innovative XML technology year after year.”

“We are honored to be recognized by Programmer’s Paradise and the developer community as the purveyor of the world’s best-selling XML tool,” said Tim Hale, Director of Marketing for Altova. “Our customer-focused approach and ability to come to market quickly with the most useful features and latest industry standards has propelled Altova to industry leadership as the first choice in XML and software development tools.”

For more information on Altova XMLSpy go to: http://www.altova.com/xmlspy

The Riding the Crest Awards are determined by total sales in each category featuring at least three competitive products. 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 2.5 million clients worldwide, including virtually every Fortune 500 company. 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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