Altova Inc., Announces Availability of World's First SOAP Debugger and Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2000 SQLXML in XML Spy 4.3 Suite.

Business/Technology Editors

Seybold Seminars New York 2002

BEVERLY, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 11, 2002

Altova, Inc. (www.xmlspy.com) today announced the release of the XML Spy 4.3 Suite, a comprehensive product-line of developer tools for advanced XML application development, consisting of the XML Spy 4.3 Integrated Development Environment (IDE), the XML Spy 4.3 XSLT Designer, and the XML Spy 4.3 Document Editor.

World's First SOAP Debugger - XML Spy 4.3 Suite is the only tool on the market that lets developers tackle real-world web services development on all of the major web services platforms including Microsoft .NET and Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE). XML Spy Suite is the essential developer tool for testing & debugging web services based on Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP).

Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2000 SQLXML - XML Spy is the only tool to support graphical editing of XML Schemas which use Microsoft SQLXML schema extensions, a powerful technology which effectively bridges the gap between Extensible Markup Language (XML) and relational data by creating XML views of relational data, abstracting away the underlying data format.

"Microsoft recognizes Altova's XML Spy 4 Suite as an industry leading XML development tool and we are pleased to have authoring support for SQLXML directly within XML Spy 4 Suite", said Stan Sorensen, Director of SQL Server Product Marketing at Microsoft Corporation. "Using XML Spy's powerful graphical schema editor, software developers and database administrators can easily create and edit XML schemas which simplify programming and data management."

XML Spy 4.3 Pricing and Availability

The XML Spy 4.3 Suite is available immediately for download and purchase from the XML Spy Online Shop, www.xmlspy.com/order. All current XML Spy 4.x customers are eligible to receive the new XML Spy 4.3 Suite as a free upgrade for their respective orders. See website for complete price-list including, multi-user or concurrent-user licenses, or contact [e-mail].

Live demonstrations of XML Spy 4.3 Suite will held at the following industry tradeshows:

-- exponet Vienna 2002, Vienna, Austria, Feb 12-14

-- Seybold Seminars, booth #829, New York, Feb 19-22

-- MSFT TechEd, New Orleans, Apr 9-13

-- Software Dev. Conf., booth #815, San Diego, Apr 22-26

-- Web Services Edge, booth #523, NYC, June 24-27

About Altova

Altova is a leading provider of XML software solutions with offices in Beverly, MA and headquarters in Vienna, Austria. The privately held company was founded in 1992 and has been actively involved in the XML market from the early conception of Extensible Markup Language. Altova's XML Spy is the leading choice of Fortune 500 and Global 1000 companies. Altova's XML Spy product line is the best-selling XML tools suite and has won the leading industry awards. Altova is a member of the W3C.

Altova, XML Spy, and AXAD are trademarks of Altova GmbH registered in numerous countries. The names of and reference to companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.