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XML DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT NAMED BEST-SELLING XML TOOL FOR SIXTH CONSECUTIVE YEAR

BEVERLY, Mass., April 1, 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 a marketer of technical software and hardware, 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.

“For the sixth consecutive year Altova XMLSpy has been the tool of choice for development teams working with XML technology,” said Jeff Largiader, vice president of sales and marketing for Programmer’s Paradise. “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

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