March 17th, 2003 - Schaumburg, IL

Alpine Consulting & Altova Team to Provide Rapid Development of Critical E-Business Solution Powerful XML Development Environment Speeds Delivery and Decreases Costs

Alpine Consulting, a professional IT services firm specializing in e-business solutions, today announced its partnership with Altova, a leading provider of XML software solutions. The partnership will allow Alpine to more efficiently develop solutions to meet the growing needs of clients and their customers. Utilizing XMLSPY 5, Alpine develops XML-enabled solutions that meet the highest performance, availability and reliability standards.

"Altova's XML development environment allows Alpine to optimize the solution development and implementation processes and further enables us to deliver e-business applications that meet our customers' needs," said Joe Siok, Managing Partner, Alpine Consulting. "Altova's XMLSPY 5 has been extremely beneficial in building solutions with significant cost and time savings. This is by far the best XML development tool we have used."

To provide clients with full functionality e-business solutions, Alpine Consulting leverages the power and flexibility of Altova's development tools. XMLSPY 5 meets the needs of Alpine Consultants by enhancing their capabilities to design, edit and debug enterprise-class applications involving XML, XML Schema, XSL/XSLT, SOAP, WSDL and Web Services technologies. Alpine utilizes XMLSPY throughout the development, implementation and maintenance lifecycles.

About Altova Altova, Inc. is a leading provider of XML software solutions with offices in Beverly, MA and Vienna, Austria. The privately help company was founded in 1992 and has been actively involved in the XML market from the early conception of Extensible Markup Language. Altova's XMLSPY 5 is the leading choice of Fortune 500 and Global 1000 companies. Altova's XMLSPY 5 product line is the worlds' best-selling XML tool and has won the leading industry awards including PC Magazine's Editor's Choice Award and Best Product of 2002. Altova is a technology partner with the world's leading software companies including Microsoft, Oracle, BEA, IONA, and Software AG. Altova is a member of the W3C and WS-I. Visit Altova on the web at http://www.altova.com.

About Alpine Consulting, Inc. Headquartered in Schaumburg, IL, Alpine Consulting is a professional Information Technology services firm focused on helping IT organizations deliver business value. Alpine Consulting specializes in e-business solutions, custom development and systems integration for medium and larger companies. Clients of Alpine Consulting have successfully implemented e-business solutions that have resulted in significant business process improvements, faster time to market and considerable return on investment. For more information on how Alpine can help with your e-business solutions contact us at 847-605-0788, info@alpineinc.com or visit our Web site at http://www.alpineinc.com.