Santa Clara - 6/13/2006 - Macrovision Corporation's technology was recently recognized in three distinctive awards programs. The awards were received from Java Pro magazine, Redmond magazine, and SIIA and further validate Macrovision's leadership in the ecommerce, packaging, installation and digital rights management arenas.
Java 2006 Technology Achievement Awards:
Macrovision's InstallAnywhere was awarded Best Installation Tool at the event that honored the top products of 2006 as selected by Java Pro readers. InstallAnywhere helps software developers create and manage professional multiplatform installations.
Annual Redmond magazine Readers' Choice Awards:
FLEXnet AdminStudio won the "Best Software Packaging Product" and "Best Application Conflict Testing Product" in this annual reader survey. The 2006 awards are based on the responses of 2,000 readers who list their favorite products in 45 categories. FLEXnet AdminStudio also won both awards in 2005.
FLEXnet AdminStudio's automated packaging and conflict management tools make it easy for systems administrators to prepare reliable, conflict-free MSI packages for seamless enterprise-wide distribution..
2006 Software & Information Industry Association's (SIIA) CODiE Awards:
Macrovision's FLEXnet Publisher software was named 'Best Digital Rights Management Solution.' Macrovision's RightCommerce software was named 'Best E-commerce Solution.' The CODiE Awards use both journalist and peer-company reviews to identify the leaders and innovators in 71 categories across the software, digital content and education technology industries.
RightCommerce, the ecommerce product within Macrovision's eRights Suite, enables flexible billing and payment, including subscription management, for providers of digital goods and services – text, audio, video, streaming media, games and software applications – maximizing the value of these Web-based assets.
FLEXnet Publisher allows software and hardware vendors to increase revenue, reduce content piracy and reduce operational costs by flexibly pricing, packaging, protecting and updating their product offerings..
About Macrovision Solutions Corporation
Macrovision Solutions Corporation is focused on providing a uniquely simple digital home entertainment experience by delivering solutions to businesses to protect, enhance and distribute digital goods to consumers across multiple channels. Macrovision's technologies are deployed by companies in the entertainment, consumer electronics, cable and satellite, and online distribution markets to solve industry-specific challenges and bring greater value and a more robust user experience to their customers. The result of deploying Macrovision's solutions is a simple end user experience for discovering, managing and enjoying digital content. Today, Macrovision provides connected middleware, media recognition, interactive programming guides, copy protection and rich media, data and metadata on music, games, movies and television programming. The company also operates an entertainment portal which can be found at http://www.allmusic.com/. Macrovision holds over 4,100 issued or pending patents and patent applications worldwide.
Macrovision is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with numerous offices across the United States and around the world including Japan, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, and the United Kingdom. More information about Macrovision can be found at http://www.macrovision.com/.
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