Windows IT Pro Magazine Presents Altova XMLSpy with the "Best of Connections 2007" Award

Altova, (www.altova.com) creator of the industry-leading XMLSpy XML Editor and other leading XML, data management, UML, and Web services tools, today announced that Altova XMLSpy was named as winner of the "Best of Connections 2007" in the Office category by Penton Media's Windows IT Pro. In the award's first year, the judges reviewed over 60 IT products and services submitted for the contest and chose 18 finalists that were evaluated at Microsoft Connections in Las Vegas. Interviews were conducted, and winners were announced on the exhibit floor of the Connections conference.

Altova XMLSpy Earns IBM CTO Innovation Award Certificate of Excellence

Altova, (www.altova.com) creator of the industry-leading XMLSpy XML Editor and other leading XML, data management, UML, and Web services tools, today announced that Altova XMLSpy received a 2007 IBM CTO Innovation Award Certificate of Excellence for its deep integration with the IBM DB2 9 data server. Altova XMLSpy provides users with exclusive functionality for querying, editing, transforming, and exchanging XML data stored in DB2 9 databases. The CTO Innovation Award Certificate was presented in conjunction with the second annual Information Management Business Partner Awards at the IBM Information on Demand conference held October 14-19 in Las Vegas, NV.

Altova Releases German Language Version of DatabaseSpy 2008

VIENNA, Austria, 6 November 2007 - Altova, (www.altova.com) creator of the industry-leading XMLSpy XML Editor and other leading XML, data management, UML, and Web services tools, today announced that Altova DatabaseSpy 2008 is now available in a German language version. Like its English counterpart, the German edition of DatabaseSpy connects to all major databases, easing SQL editing and database structure design, for a fraction of the cost of single-database solutions. DatabaseSpy supports IBM DB2 (including IBM pureXML), Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access, Oracle, MySQL, and Sybase, as well as other ADO or ODBC databases.

Altova Releases Version 2008 of its Award-winning Software Product Line

Altova, creator of XMLSpy and other leading XML, data management, UML, and Web services tools, today announced the availability of Version 2008 (v2008) of its award-winning line of software development tools. With the release of its v2008 products, Altova introduces a host of powerful new capabilities, including support for the Widows Vista operating system across the product line, extended support for Office Open XML file formats in XMLSpy, more data mapping versatility in MapForce, and enhanced database functionality in StyleVision. Additionally, this new software version brings Visual Basic .NET code engineering and real-time integration with Visual Studio and Eclipse in UModel, support for editing database views and stored procedures in DatabaseSpy, one-click directory synchronization in DiffDog, and much more.