Hostway Now Offering Microsoft Collaboration Solution

Hostway Now Offering Microsoft Collaboration Solution SharePoint Provides Easy-to-Use Platform for Information Sharing CHICAGO, Jan. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- 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 Source: Hostway Corporation CONTACT: Lauria Locsmondy of Hostway Corporation, +1-312-994-7720, Lauria.Locsmondy@hostway.com ; or Tina Janczura of Slack Barshinger, +1-312-970-5841, Tina.Janczura@slackbarshinger.com Web site: http://www.hostway.com/smb/sharepoint http://www.hostway.com/ ------- Profile: International Entertainment