Reader's Choice Winner, 2004

By DE Editors

DESKTOP ENGINEERING MAGAZINE READERS CHOOSE ACUITIV V4.O
AS 2004 PRODUCT OF THE YEAR

MARCH 7, 2005 — Desktop Engineering (DE) magazine is pleased toannounce the winner of its third annual Readers' Choice Product of theYear Award: ACUITIV v4.0 from ACUITIV Software. DE readers voted online from among a group of 12products, each of which was a 2004 Readers' Choice monthly winner.

Readers were asked to vote on DE's website; through anemail blast, links from the homepage, and the magazine's e-newsletter,DE Newslink. Readers were also directed to the voting page via an ad inthe magazine's February issue. Votes were cast from January 15ththrough February 16th.

The award was presented to ACUITIV Software at National ManufacturingWeek at McCormick Place in Chicago, on Monday, March 7th.

Desktop Engineering (DE) Publisher Brian Vaillancourt and DE EditorialDirector Tony Lockwood congratulate ACUITIV's Bill Panepinto forACUITIV 4.0 CFD Visualization tool being chosen 2004 Product of theYear by DE readers.

Kathleen Kwiatkowski of Omega Engineering, Inc. accepts the Readers'Choice September 2004 Product of the Month award for the RD8900 Seriesof paperless recorders from DE Editorial Director Tony Lockwood.

 ACUITIV's CFD visualization software was announced in the August 2004issue of DE. ACUITIV v4.0 delivers a fully interactive,enterprise-class CFD visualization solution for the automotive,aerospace and defense, power, and chemical processing industries.ACUITIV 4.0 provides customers with a suite of interactive tools fortransient model visualization, multi-PC visualization sessions, andsteady-state model support.

DE congratulates all of its 2004 Readers' Choice Award monthly winners:Saelig, Iiyama, Measurement Computing, EUROCOM, MathRevolt, ConceptualProduct Development, ANSYS, ACUITIV Software, Omega, Design Science,and Alias. For more information about DE's monthly Readers' Choiceawards, or to read about current and past winners, visit deskeng.com/Departments/Readers-Choice-Award.html.

DE Editorial Director Tony Lockwood and HelmersPublishing Group Publisher Dave Colby commend Eurocom Corporation'sIwona Osmolska for the company's Mirage D870P notebook computer havingbeen chosen the April 2004 Product of the Month.	Desktop Engineering Editorial Director Tony Lockwoodpresents the Readers' Choice Product of the Year Award for 2004 toACUITIV Software General Manager Bill Panepinto at NationalManufacturing Week in Chicago on March 7.

Desktop Engineering is a monthly magazine distributed to 63,000 designengineers and engineering managers who use MCAD, data analysis,EDM/PDM/PLM, and data acquisition hardware and software in themanufacturing and process industries. Desktop Engineering ispublished by Helmers Publishing Inc. (HPI), which was established in1979. The company also publishes Supply Chain Systems Magazine, thepremier magazine covering the integration of data capture technologiesacross the supply chain and CSCO magazine, the publication thatprovides insight to supply chain executives. For more information onHPI's magazines, visit , cscomagazine.com andscs-mag.com.