Hostway Now Offering Microsoft Collaboration Solution
Sunday, 23 January 2005Hostway 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/ .
Contact: Lauria Locsmondy, Hostway, 312/994-7720,
Lauria.Locsmondy@hostway.com
Tina Janczura, Slack Barshinger, 312/970-5841,
Tina.Janczura@slackbarshinger.com
Source: PR Newswire
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