Altova Offers XMLSPY Home Edition for Free; The Home Edition of the Industry's Leading XML Development Environment is Now Available at No Cost for Students and Other Home Users.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers BEVERLY Beverly, city (1990 pop. 38,195), Essex co., NE Mass., on Massachusetts Bay; inc. as a city 1894. Its chief manufactures are electronic and scientific equipment, consumer goods, and chemicals. , Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 25, 2004 Altova(R) Inc. (www.altova.com) producers of Altova XMLSPY(R), the world's leading XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. (eXtensible Mark-up Language) development environment, today announced that the Home Edition of its award-winning XMLSPY product is now being offered to the public through a free software license. Altova recognizes that while XML technologies will be the basis upon which the next generation of interconnected business systems and Web service applications are built, the developers of tomorrow need a truly affordable platform upon which they can learn the technology and gain hands-on experience. It is with this in mind that Altova decided to make its powerful, entry level XMLSPY 2004 Home Edition software available at no cost. After all, what could be more affordable than free? "As a company committed to providing superior developer software at exceptional prices, we are very excited to begin offering this free home edition of our industry leading XML platform to students and technology enthusiasts," said Tim Hale, Altova's Director of Marketing. "These people are the future of IT, and it just makes sense for them to start out using the industry standard XML development environment. Free licenses for XMLSPY Home Edition now assure this is possible." In addition to its extensive built-in XML editing capabilities, XMLSPY 2004 Home Edition gives users the opportunity to try selected features of the Enterprise and Professional editions of XMLSPY 2004 on a one-feature-per-day basis. These are fully-functional advanced features designed to accelerate the most demanding aspects of XML development. Available features include a comprehensive schema editor, a programming code generator See application generator and macro recorder. , XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation) Software that converts an XML document into another format such as HTML, PDF or text. It may also be used to convert one XML document to another XML document with a different set of XML tags (different schema). and SOAP debuggers, relational database relational database Database in which all data are represented in tabular form. The description of a particular entity is provided by the set of its attribute values, stored as one row or record of the table, called a tuple. support, enhanced grid view This article is about a graphical user interface element. For a grid computing system that deals with data, see data grid. A grid view or a datagrid is a graphical user interface element (widget) that presents a tabular view of data. , and much more. As a special offer, customers who have purchased previous releases of XMLSPY Home Edition will receive a 50% discount when they upgrade to XMLSPY Professional Edition. Pricing and Availability Effective immediately, XMLSPY 2004 Home Edition is available for free from http://www.altova.com/download. (This is a permanent free software license, not just a free evaluation.) The 50% discount for previous XMLSPY Home Edition customers upgrading to XMLSPY Professional Edition is also available immediately via the Upgrade Wizard Instructional help in an application or system development environment that guides the user through a series of multiple choice questions to accomplish a task. For the most part, wizards are more effective than the help menus found in most applications, which often border on the atrocious. on the Altova Online Shop: https://shop.altova.com. About Altova Altova is a leading provider of XML software tools, components, and professional service solutions, including XMLSPY 2004, the industry standard XML development environment. Altova, with offices in Beverly, Mass., and Vienna, Austria, was founded in 1992 and has been actively involved in the XML market from the early conception of Extensible Markup Language See XML. (language, text) Extensible Markup Language - (XML) An initiative from the W3C defining an "extremely simple" dialect of SGML suitable for use on the World-Wide Web. http://w3.org/XML/. . Altova's 2004 product line of XML development tools and components is the leading choice of Fortune 500 and Global 1000 companies. Altova's XMLSPY is the world's best-selling best·sell·er also best seller n. A product, such as a book, that is among those sold in the largest numbers. best XML tool and has won the leading industry awards. Altova is a member of the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium, www.w3.org) An international industry consortium founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee to develop standards for the Web. It is hosted in the U.S. by the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT (www.csail.mit.edu/index.php). . Visit Altova on the Web at http://www.altova.com. Altova, XMLSPY, STYLEVISION, and AUTHENTIC are trademarks of Altova GmbH registered in numerous countries. 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