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INDUSTRY-LEADING XML DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT RECEIVES PROGRAMMER’S PARADISE RIDING THE CREST AWARD 2005

BEVERLY, Mass., June 29, 2006 – – 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 Programmer’s Paradise Riding the Crest Award 2005 in the XML Tools category. This marks the fourth 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.

Programmer’s Paradise, Inc. is an award-winning marketer of technical software and hardware, and offers thousands of products that aid programmer efficiency. Each year, the company recognizes the products that its customers have selected most often and “ride high on the wave” above all others. The Riding the Crest Awards are determined by total sales in each category featuring at least three competitive products.

“Altova is clearly the dominant XML development tools publisher,” said Jeff Largiader, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Programmer’s Paradise. “They’ve earned their market-leading position by consistently producing superior, innovative, productivity-enhancing products.”

“Altova has earned the trust of millions of developers worldwide with software tools that not only adhere to industry standards, but also simplify their implementation and thereby advance the cause of promising technologies,” said Tim Hale, Director of Marketing for Altova. “We are proud of this prestigious award from Programmer’s Paradise and our position as the market leader, but we are most proud of being the trusted choice among developers.”

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 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 www.altova.com.

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