Altova XMLSpy Named "Best of Tech--Ed 2007" Winner by Windows IT Pro, SQL Server Magazine and Office & Sharepoint Pro.com.BEVERLY, Mass. -- Altova[R] ( http://www.altova.com ), creator of XMLSpy[R] and other 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. , data management, UML (Unified Modeling Language) An object-oriented analysis and design language from the Object Management Group (OMG). Many design methodologies for describing object-oriented systems were developed in the late 1980s. , and Web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. tools, today announced that XMLSpy was named as winner of the "Best of Tech*Ed Awards 2007" in the Developer Tools and Technologies category by Penton Media's Windows IT Pro Windows IT Pro (ISSN-1552-3136) is a trade publication and web site owned by Penton Media serving the information needs of IT professionals in various fields including data processing, software development and programming. ([R]), SQL Server An earlier relational DBMS from Sybase and from Microsoft. Sybase introduced SQL Server in 1988 for various Unix versions. In that same year, with help from IBM, Sybase created an OS/2 version that Microsoft licensed and branded as Microsoft SQL Server. Magazine([R]) and Office & Sharepoint Pro.com. The judges reviewed over 260 IT products and services submitted for the contest and chose 45 finalists to be interviewed at Tech*Ed in Orlando, Fla. Winners were announced at an evening reception at the Peabody Hotel Orlando. "Altova XMLSpy is the established leader in the XML development market," said Michael Otey, Technical Director for Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine, as he conferred the award. "In the latest release, XMLSpy 2007 adds support for the new Microsoft Office 2007 default document format - Office Open XML An XML-based file format developed by Microsoft and standardized by ECMA (ECMA 376). It is the default document format for saving applications in Microsoft Office starting with Office 2007. See Office 2007. - to the product's already impressive feature set. XMLSpy addresses virtually all aspects of XML development and is also fully integrated with Visual Studio," he added. "We are thrilled to have XMLSpy named Best of Microsoft Tech*Ed," said Tim Hale, Director of Marketing for Altova. "The exclusive capability of XMLSpy 2007 to extract, edit, query, and transform XML data from within Microsoft Word documents and Excel spreadsheets provides unprecedented opportunities to programmatically re-purpose vast amounts of valuable business content, and the editors at Penton Media have recognized the significance of this new feature to Microsoft developers and their clients." Altova XMLSpy 2007, the industry standard XML editor, is currently available with pricing starting at (USD USD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the U.S. Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. ) $499. XMLSpy may be purchased directly from the Altova Online Shop at: https://shop.altova.com To download a 30-day free trial of XMLSpy 2007, visit: http://www.altova.com/download.html 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 more than 91 percent of the Fortune 500 companies. 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 (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). ) and Object Management Group (OMG (1) See Object Management Group. (2) "Oh my God!" See digispeak. OMG - Object Management Group ) 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 Altova, MissionKit, XMLSpy, MapForce, StyleVision, UModel, DatabaseSpy, DiffDog, SchemaAgent, SemanticWorks, Authentic, and AltovaXML are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Altova GmbH in the United States and/or other countries. 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