Hostway
Now Offering Microsoft Collaboration Solution
[January 21, 2005]
CHICAGO,
Jan 21, 2005 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Hostway Corporation,
a global leader in Web hosting and managed services,
today said it has added Microsoft Windows SharePoint
Services collaboration technologies to its hosting services,
enabling its customers to easily create, manage and
build their own collaborative Web sites and make them
accessible throughout their organizations.
"Windows SharePoint Services enhances
work-team productivity for small to medium-sized businesses
through an easy-to-use, Web-based collaboration tool,"
said Melissa Zuckerman, Hostway's product director.
"With SharePoint Products and Technologies, building
and managing an intranet becomes much easier than ever
before."
Hostway offers new clients two Windows
SharePoint Services plans, Standard and Advanced. For
up to 35 users, the Standard plan provides Windows SharePoint
Services disk quota of 300MB, 10 GB of traffic, and
25 email accounts. The Advanced plan, designed for up
to 85 users, offers disk quota of 600MB, 30 GB or traffic
and 65 email accounts. The Standard plan is available
for $19.95 per month or $215 per year. The Advanced
plan is available for $39.95 per month or $431 per year.
Current Hostway "Windows Gold"
or Linux Web-hosting clients may add Windows SharePoint
Services to their hosting plans at an incremental monthly
charge of $10 for each 20 users and 50MB of disk space.
Current clients of Hostway's premium "Gold Plus"
and other premium Windows Web-hosting plans will enjoy
free access to Windows SharePoint Services.
Windows SharePoint Services, a collection
of services for Windows Server(TM) 2003, provides tools
to share information, collaborate with other users on
documents, and create lists and Web Part pages. Companies
also may use SharePoint products and technologies as
a platform for creating collaboration and information-sharing
applications.
With the powerful tools of Windows SharePoint
Services, teams can keep connected and productive, enabling
better decisions and stronger relationships with customers,
partners and suppliers. Users can more efficiently create
and review any type of document with built-in document
versioning and check-in and checkout capabilities. Teams
may also distribute business-critical information more
securely through password-protected SharePoint sites
rather than relying on email.
Hostway clients also will benefit from
SharePoint Products and Technologies secure and scalable
feature set. Its additional features include News and
Topics; My Site, with personal and public views; information
targeting to specific audiences; powerful indexing and
searching across file shares, Web servers, secure Web
servers, Exchange Public Folders, Lotus Notes and SharePoint
sites; alerts that notify when changes are made to relevant
information, documents or applications; single sign-on
for enterprise application integration; and integration
with Microsoft BizTalk(R) Server.
To learn more about Hostway's SharePoint-based
solutions, visit http://www.hostway.com/smb/sharepoint/
.
About
Hostway
Hostway
Corporation provides Web hosting and managed services
to more than 300,000 customers worldwide. Hostway helps
individuals, small businesses and large enterprises
achieve more value from state-of-the-art Web-based technologies
by reducing their complexity and cost. Founded in 1998,
Hostway is one of the five largest Web hosting companies
in the world with offices in North America (Chicago,
Tampa and Vancouver), Europe (London and Amsterdam),
Seoul, Asia and Sydney, Australia. For more information
about Hostway Corporation, please visit http://www.hostway.com
or call 1-888-290-5170.
Contact: Lauria Locsmondy, Hostway,
312/994-7720,
Lauria.Locsmondy@hostway.com
Tina Janczura, Slack Barshinger, 312/970-5841,
Tina.Janczura@slackbarshinger.com
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