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AVIcode Intercept Studio Named "Best of Tech Ed 2008 Developers Awards" Winner by Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazines

BALTIMORE, Maryland, 06/11/2008 – AVIcode, Inc., a leading provider of real-time, always-on application monitoring solutions, today announced that its Intercept Studio was named as a winner of the “Best of Tech•Ed 2008 Developers Awards” in the Developer Tools category by Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro® and SQL Server Magazine®.

The judges reviewed over 65 products and services submitted for the contest and chose 13 finalists to be interviewed at Tech•Ed 2008 Developers Conference in Orlando, Florida. The interviews were conducted June 3-4, 2008. Winners were announced on June 5th at an evening reception held at Universal Studios in Florida.

“For our seventh annual Best of Tech•Ed awards competition, we’ve once again seen an impressive and expanding slate of entries,” said Karen Forster, group editorial and strategy director for Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine. “We selected among the many admirable products, choosing winners that most clearly demonstrated strategic importance to the market, competitive advantages and value to customers.”

AVIcode Intercept Studio is the only .NET application monitoring solution designed to protect software investments throughout the application lifecycle. It simplifies the detection, diagnosis, and resolution of application problems by automatically monitoring and diagnosing performance degradations, code failures, and security and connectivity issues. In order to accelerate problem resolution, Intercept Studio provides a complete root cause analysis pinpointing the precise line of problem code, detecting resource-specific bottlenecks, collecting the complete call stack and object state and gathering all function parameters and local and member variables.

“AVIcode is at the forefront of .NET application lifecycle management as companies worldwide realize the serious impact that application errors and downtime can have on customer service, corporate reputation, compliance and overall cost of ownership,” said Mike Curreri, CEO at AVIcode. “We are excited to be honored as a Best of Tech•Ed award winner, and we look forward to continuing to provide these always-on solutions that help lower corporate risk, and keep applications running as designed and expected.”

Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro, the largest independent Windows IT community in the world, has Windows IT Pro as its flagship print publication. Windows IT Pro also includes SQL Server Magazine and Office SharePoint Pro. The Windows IT Pro network has 2.5 million unique visitors to its Web sites each month, and more than one million subscribers who opt-in to one or more email newsletters. Windows IT Pro is the world’s leading producer of custom road shows, paid conferences and paid workshops for Windows and SQL Server IT and developer professionals. For more information visit: www.windowsitpro.com.
Penton Media, Inc. is the largest independent business-to-business media company in the U.S., serving more than six million business professionals every month. The company's market-leading brands are focused on 30 industries and include 113 trade magazines, 145 Web sites, 150 industry trade shows and conferences, and more than 500 information data products. Headquartered in New York City, the privately held company is owned by MidOcean Partners and U.S. Equity Partners II, an investment fund sponsored by Wasserstein & Co., LP, and its co-investors. For additional information on the company and its businesses, visit www.penton.com.

About AVIcode

AVIcode is the leading provider of .NET application monitoring solutions. AVIcode's award-winning technology protects application development and management investments, and is recommended as a best practice by Microsoft for .NET application monitoring. AVIcode's flagship product, Intercept Studio, detects application problems in real-time throughout the application lifecycle - including security and connectivity issues, performance bottlenecks, and code failures - and delivers immediate root cause information to accelerate problem resolution. Organizations worldwide rely on AVIcode's technology to get applications to market faster, reduce application maintenance and management costs, and ensure maximum application availability and reliability. For more information, contact AVIcode at 443.543.0030 or info@avicode.com, or visit the company website at www.avicode.com.

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Press contact: Marty Brandwin, AVIcode (443) 543-0030, marty.brandwin@AVIcode.com