Las Vegas, Nevada - (Website Hosting Directory) - December 7, 2007 - Bamboo Solutions Corporation, has created a Partner Advantage Program, including a multi-level, designed to provide partners with increased exposure to its global customer base and access to its engineering and product support teams.

The Partner Advantage Program reflects Bamboo’s commitment to provide its expanding and diverse customer base with cost-effective and rapid delivery of collaboration solutions on the Microsoft SharePoint platform. Effective immediately, Bamboo is accepting inquiries from hosting, solution and consulting partners who are ready to experience the many benefits of collaborating with the leading provider of Web Parts for SharePoint.

Mike Tanner, CEO, Bamboo Solutions Corporation offered, ”With over 3,000 customers worldwide, we are frequently asked to implement specialized SharePoint-based solutions. By partnering with leading SharePoint solutions providers, Bamboo Solutions can deliver complete, individualized client solutions based on our products.”

Participation in the program is available at four membership levels: Registered, Certified, Silver and Gold. Participants qualify for a single membership level based upon previous and continued contributions to, and investment in selling and deploying products and services. All Partner Advantage partners receive exposure via Bamboo’s highly visible online store, client referrals and participation in co-marketing activities. All levels of membership benefit from technical support and proposal/quotation assistance. Higher level partners are entitled to demonstration software licenses and quarterly business development planning, as well as private label opportunities, direct access to our engineering team and internal use software licensing.

Bamboo Solutions Corporation provides software and services that are designed to assist collaboration problems, with products based upon the Microsoft SharePoint Platform, including a comprehensive portfolio of Web Parts, Solution Accelerators, customized solutions and services. For over 12 years, Bamboo Solutions has been helping customers with needs that include information integration and reporting, document management, project and task management, self-service portals, management reporting, grants management, and more. Bamboo Solutions is headquartered in Reston, Virginia, USA, with offices in Gothenburg, Sweden and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

To learn more, please visit: www.bamboosolutions.com.

Coral Springs, Florida - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - October 1, 2007 - Host Depot, a hosting solutions company focused on the SMB sector, has entered into a partnership with interactive consumer feedback platform and quality assurance certification firm, RatePoint.

Founded by the former executives of GeoTrust, RatePoint’s Consumer Approval Program has been engaged to provide Host Depot customers with access to the service offering, through the hosting account control panel. RatePoint is designed to allow businesses to manage their online reputation by easily capturing and publishing consumer reviews and feedback directly from web sites. RatePoint verifies actual consumer ratings for authenticity, and businesses then have an opportunity to respond to feedback.

Mark Erskine, President and CEO, Host Depot offered, ”Until now, small to mid-sized online businesses had no fully-interactive, hosted customer communication tool to help them compete with the resources of bigger companies. The RatePoint Consumer Approval Program levels that playing field by letting us provide the merchants we host with an affordable, easy to implement customer feedback program that allows them to boost sales and strengthen customer relationships.”

Recent industry studies clearly point to the benefits of incorporating user-generated reviews and ratings on business web sites:

• 71% of online shoppers read reviews, making it the most widely read consumer-generated content(Forrester)
• 77% of online shoppers use reviews and ratings when purchasing (Jupiter Research, August 2006)
• Reviews drive 21% higher purchase satisfaction and 18% higher loyalty (Foresee Results Study, January 2007)

RatePoint memberships include:

• The RatePoint badge, a dynamic Web site seal that businesses can use to collect and publish reviews, and a recognized and trusted symbol of a quality business.
• Access to the RatePoint business dashboard, an online interface that allows businesses to easily manage and respond to feedback and reviews. The business dashboard also provides a host of other feedback management and marketing tools for businesses.
• A customized listing in the RatePoint online business directory that is searchable by millions of consumers. Directory listings can provide better search engine optimization (SEO) and increased traffic.

Host Depot joins the RatePoint reseller community of more than 100 companies. The RatePoint Partner Program gives web hosting companies, ISPs and other technology providers a way to not only grow their business and revenue, but to also add value to their customers.

Last year, Host Depot adjusted its offerings and brand, in order to improve solutions, such as Search Engine Optimization, Bandwidth Bank, and Google Checkout, with a new SEO promotional plan and pricing. Host Depot has also created Bandwidth Bank, which allows all shared web hosting customers to rollover unused bandwidth from month to month.

Founded in 2006, RatePoint, Inc. offers a quality-assurance certification and customer feedback platform for growing businesses. Leveraging the latest in Web 2.0 trends, web content authentication and consumer ratings systems, RatePoint, Inc. is revolutionizing the way businesses and consumers define, identify and monitor quality. RatePoint, Inc. was founded by the founders of GeoTrust and is venture backed by Prism VentureWorks and .406 Ventures.

Host Depot, Inc. was founded in September of 1997 as a technology company with a focus on hosting and the development of integrated e-commerce solutions tailored for small, medium, and large businesses. Since their inception, they have grown to provide a breadth of new services including Internet access products, web site development, promotional services, and high-end e-commerce hosting solutions. Host Depot’s servers offer high-performance networks, with experienced professionals.

For more information about RatePoint, Inc., please visit: www.ratepoint.com.

To learn more, Host Depot, please visit: www.hostdepot.com.

Oakland, California - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - September 20, 2007 - Real estate web site design, hosting, and online marketing services firm, iHOUSE Web Solutions, a division of CIS Data Systems, Inc., has expanded its partnership referral program.

iHOUSE Web Solutions has extended its Refer-A-Friend Program that generates ”Thank You Rewards,” to include ConnecTel Real Estate Hotline customers. Previously this program was only available for all existing iHOUSE real estate web site template and IDXPro MLS Search customers and their referred associates. Now, ConnecTel can also choose among a variety of ”Thank You Rewards” such as various gift cards or account credits. Additionally, the newly referred customers will each receive a credit to their new account.

There are no limits to the number of referrals and potential accumulated rewards. To begin the reward process, current iHOUSE Web Solutions customers must fill out the form located at www.ihouseweb.com/bin/referral.php. More information on the program is also available at www.ihouseweb.com/referral.html.

Paul Sheng, CEO of iHouse remarked, ”Much like our customers in the real estate industry, our business thrives on word-of-mouth, we want to make it as easy as possible for our customers to spread the word about the great products and service at iHOUSE Web Solutions.”

iHOUSE Web Solutions will continue to offer completely free trial versions of all of its products. Those who are interested in learning more on how real estate 800 numbers such as ConnecTel can help their business, are invited to sign up to attend free webinars at www.ihouseweb.com/Company/education/. The current session focuses on ”How Real Estate Hotlines Can Double Your Lead Generation Power.”

Since 1986, iHOUSE Web Solutions, a division of CIS Data Systems, Inc., has provided real estate professionals with technology and Internet tools to build businesses. Through continued designs of user-friendly real estate agent websites and other products for real estate web site promotion, the company has built a network of over 10,000 customers, and maintains IDX data feeds with nearly 300 MLSs nationwide, representing nearly two-thirds of all listings in the U.S. Its web marketing solutions include iHOUSE websites, IDXPro MLS search and email service, MarketReach email marketing solution, VTShowcase virtual tour manager, and ConnecTel toll-free communication service. Headquartered in Oakland, California, iHOUSE Web Solutions can be reached by phone (Toll-Free) 866-645-7702.

For more information on ConnecTel toll free listing hotlines, please visit: www.ihouseweb.com/products/connectel/.

For more information about iHOUSE, please visit: www.ihouseweb.com.

The Colony, Texas - (Website Hosting Directory) - September 14, 2007 - ColdFusion web hosting company, CFDynamics, is hosting a Jumpstart Read for the Record Event Finder/Builder, to allow participants to find reading events being held in communities on the record-breaking day, September 20.

Jason Egan, Vice President of Customer Relations for CFDynamics remarked, ”We are pleased to be hosting the Event Finder/Builder on www.readfortherecord.org and wholeheartedly support Jumpstart’s mission of early childhood education and literacy.”

Rob Zeaske, Senior Vice President of External Affairs at Jumpstart reportedly commented that it is crucial that they have solid, reliable web hosting to support the enormous traffic they expect to have in the next two weeks.

Jumpstart’s Read for the Record is a national campaign to encourage hundreds of thousands of children and adults to read the same book, The Story of Ferdinand, on the same day, September 20, 2007. The goal of the campaign is to raise public awareness about the earlyeducation gap that exists between income levels. Jumpstart’s campaign will raise funds to support the organization’s programs, which serve preschool children from more than 60 low-income communities across 20 states.

The campaign will create the largest ‘’shared reading experience” ever by breaking the record set on a single day in August 2006, when 150,000 people read the same book across the country as part of Jumpstart’s Read for the Record inaugural campaign. Shared reading experiences can range from an adult and child reading in their home to big group events with hundreds of people gathering at public facilities for large community reading sessions. Last year, Jumpstart’s Read for the Record raised more than $500,000 to support the organization’s early education work in low-income communities.

The campaign will be headlined on the Today Show and will feature celebrities, including Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira, reading to children. Similar events with adults reading to children will be held across the country.

Mr. Zeaske added, ”’The number of hits on our website is just skyrocketing.”

CFDynamics has been hosting websites for over a decade and prides itself on being a customer-oriented Web host, specializing in ColdFusion technology. CFDynamics combines years of development and expertise with excellent customer service to provide individuals, small businesses and large corporations with budget-friendly dedicated and shared web hosting solutions.

To learn more about the Event Finder/Builder, please visit: www.readfortherecord.org.

For more information about CFDynamics, please visit: www.cfdynamics.com.

Puyallup, Washington - (The Hosting News) - August 30, 2007 -
Website hosting provider, Flux Services, has debuted the premiere of its Hosting Affiliate Program, including payouts as high as $118 per sale. The new program will be offered as an addition to the existing in-house hosting affiliate program.

David Turner, President and Chief Executive Officer of Flux commented, ”We have joined with Clickbank to offer our affiliates additional options and higher payout opportunity. Clickbank has over 100,000 affiliates and their tracking systems accurately award commissions with extension real-time reporting.”

Participating affiliates will earn revenue referring visitors to our service. If the referred visitor orders a shared hosting plan anytime in the 365 days after the referral, the participating affiliate will receive 75% commission on the order. At current prices, this commission rate results in a pay-out of over $118 per sale with an average payout of $98.55. These are among the highest payouts in the affiliate and website hosting industries.

The web hosting affiliate program is free and open to large and small websites. Affiliates place specially coded banners, buttons, or text links anywhere on their website or in email correspondence.

Signup for the hosting affiliate programs can be found at www.ultrawebsitehosting.com/hosting-affiliate.php.

Established in 2002, Flux Services provides website hosting and domain registration services working out of Seattle, Washington, USA.

To learn more about Flux Services, please visit: www.ultrawebsitehosting.com.

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - August 9, 2007 - Server colocation and hosting services company, Zogmo.com, has introduced easy-to-qualify leasing, for servers colocated in the company’s downtown Houston datacenter.

Designed to provide companies with access to high quality server equipment without the expense of a dedicated rental program. Typical leases, which start as low as $49/monthly, last 24 months, at which point customers can choose to have the server shipped to their location or continue to colocate it in Zogmo’s facility.

Typical leases, which start as low as $49/monthly, last 24 months, at which point customers can choose to have the server shipped to their location or continue to colocate it in Zogmo’s facility.

Linn Boyd, Vice President of Operations for Zogmo remarked, ”By introducing this unique leasing program, we hope to provide our customers with the opportunity to easily and affordably build equity in their servers. Leasing server equipment also provides an assortment of other budgetary advantages for businesses, including tax advantages and the elimination of periodic spikes in expenditures for new equipment.”

With server leases, businesses can take advantage of infrastructure refreshes after 24 months, and leased equipment is not required to be reflected as a debt on a company’s balance sheet. Additionally, equipment leasing allows businesses to more flexibly leverage bank lines of credit for other expenses. Other soft costs, including sales taxes, can be financed within the monthly lease payment.

During the length of the lease, customers are required to colocate servers in Zogmo’s datacenter. Leased systems consist of name brand components, and most systems are manufactured entirely by Dell.

Founded in 2005, Zogmo is a Houston, Texas-based Internet Service and Colocation Provider. The company offers an array of Fully Managed Hosting solutions, including its Z-Manage service. Z-Manage technicians monitor servers 24/7/365, install and configure server software, and autonomously deploy necessary security updates as they become available.

For more information about Zogmo.com, please visit: www.zogmo.com.

New York, New York - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - August 1, 2007 - Oddcast’s SitePal website development firm, has launched a new hosting partners program, designed to assist hosting companies with the acquisition, retention and up-sell of customers.

Bravenet, a web tool, domain and hosting services firm, has been offering the SitePal solution to its growing base of professional members for over 6 months. The service signs up, on average, 4,000 new SitePal customers per month.

The SitePal speaking character platform from Oddcast is a powerful personalization and conversion tool that is designed for SMBs as an easy to understand and use tool. SitePal allows SMBs to rapidly customize and deploy a virtual spokesperson, salesperson or customer service rep to their web site — producing immediate increases in traffic, site stickiness and conversions. Thousands of SMBs pay a robust monthly subscription fee for SitePal, which can provide hosting partners with over $100 of additional annual revenue per subscriber.

Anna Love, Director of Business Development for Bravenet.com remarked, ”Our business development partnership and integration with SitePal is an exciting relationship for us at Bravenet. This partnership has demonstrated our ongoing commitment to providing next generation business solutions for our customer base. The SitePal platform provides our users with an effective way to increase site stickiness and visitor loyalty, while helping them drive traffic and convert site visitors into buyers.”

Adi Sideman, CEO of Oddcast added, ”Millions of users can now experience the power of talking SitePal avatars on their business web sites. Virtual Salespeople provide a personalized call to action and are proven to increase conversion rates. Web site owners spend a fortune to drive visitors to their sites. With the SitePal-Bravenet offering, they don’t have to spend a fortune to convert site visitors into online buyers.”

SitePal, developed and distributed by Oddcast, is designed to allow small business owners to create speaking animated characters (avatars) for any web site, to enrich the user experience, as cost-effective way to increase sales and conversion rates. Over 8,000 customers worldwide use SitePal.

Bravenet offers professional webmaster tools, providing domain registration, and web hosting services. Bravenet offers webmasters of all levels a comprehensive toolset designed to help them develop, enhance, and promote their Web sites. Bravenet’s advertising arm, BravenetMedia.com, an online advertising network, displays nearly 1 billion ad views per month.

For more information or to demo and purchase SitePal, please visit: www.sitepal.com.

To learn more about the SitePal Hosting Partners Program, please visit: www.sitepal.com/hostingpartners.

For more information about Bravenet, please visit: www.bravenet.com.

Bellevue, Washington - (Website Hosting Directory) - July 26, 2007 - On-demand web applications for small businesses, iHost Networks, Inc., has released its Builder Program, targeted at web hosting resellers and affiliates, developed and designed specifically to fit with a builder’s needs.

According to the company, the program supports instant activation, 24X7. The ability to resell services and receive affiliate commissions is instantly available. A builder is able to manage all affiliate and reseller activity from a single control panel. The program features generous commissions, deep reseller discounts, helpful resources and most of all, flexibility. Upon signing up for the program, builders receive a free e-store. The company believes that their builders should have a no-obligation opportunity to see the power of its shopping cart offering.

iHost Networks shopping cart service is an online, ecommerce solution that is compatible with all operating systems, including Microsoft XP and Microsoft Vista as well as leading browsers such as Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) and Firefox. The company designed the builder program’s user interface to be simple and intuitive. Upon logging in, builders will see the Builder Dashboard, which provides them with a quick-view summary of current activity for their account. Builders are able to customize their own settings, view/create reports, access resources, visit a builder blog, add new customers, and manage all of their existing customers. Builders are provided with ad banners, informational flyers, sample business proposals, demos, Google AdWords Credits, Yahoo! Search Marketing Ad Credits and guides on where to find customers and tips on how to sell additional services.

John Norton, President of iHost Networks, Inc. commented, ”Our new Builder program is designed to work for all levels of affiliate or reseller activity. Whether it’s someone who wants to setup a site or two for local non-profits, or a web design firm with thousands of accounts, we can support them.”

As a reseller, builders will receive up to 50% discounts. They are able to resell services to customers and handle their own billing. If builders are not interested in reselling services or billing customers themselves, they can act as an affiliate or affiliate network member, receiving a 20% commission on all recurring charges for the life of the customer. As an affiliate, they sign up customers and iHost Networks manages the billing. The affiliate network allows users to make money from simply promoting iHost Network’s services, most likely to people they do not even know. Many other affiliate programs in the industry are run by a 3rd party commission company. The benefit of the builder program is that the reseller and affiliate program is run by the PRWeb eBooks - Another online visibility tool from PRWeb company providing the services. iHost Networks has a vested interest in the success of the builder. The company also sees the opportunity to share knowledge and industry experience as part of the program.

iHost Networks has included platforms for feedback and suggestions from the builders and believe that they will not only receive effective input, but they will be able to respond and implement changes rapidly. iHost Networks customers will have access to the builder program on all the iHost Networks brands including: www.ieasysite.com, www.iHostStudio.com, www.iHostVM.com, www.swiftsite.com, www.pagedepot.com, www.ihostsites.net, www.ihoststores.com and www.ihostnamo.com.

iHost Networks is a provider of on-demand web applications for small businesses, using a software platform based on Microsoft’s .NET technology. iHost Networks’ goal is to deliver solutions that provide measurable return on investment.

To learn more, please visit: www.ihostnetworks.com.

Richmond, Canada - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - June 13, 2007 - One of Canada’s leading web hosting companies, Canadianwebhosting.com, has debuted a Web Hosting Affiliate Program, for webmasters and designers, whereby affiliates may earn $35-75 for each sale on all hosting packages.

The company offers shared and VPS Linux packages and also Windows VPS and ASP.net hosting plans. Affiliates have access to real-time statistics for sales and traffic, detailed reporting, payout details and account management.

Kevin Liang, Affiliate Marketing Manager remarked, ”We have listened to our customers’ feedback and the majority wanted an affiliate program from a Canadian-based hosting company that billed its customers in Canadian funds and has all its servers and support personnel in Canada.”

The affiliate program gives the clients of webmasters and web designers a simple way to find a hosting service. Canadianwebhosting.com affiliates put links on their Web pages, advertising the company’s hosting packages to potential customers. Each customer referred to Canadianwebhosting.com is credited to the affiliate. One to 49 referrals per month earns an affiliate $35 per signup, while 100 or more referrals per month earns an affiliate $75 apiece.

Founded in 1998, Canadianwebhosting.com is a privately held web hosting company providing customer support 24-hours a day, 7-days a week through toll-free telephone service, e-mail and live online chat. The Vancouver, BC based company’s mission is to keep customers up to date with the ever-changing Internet and bring them the latest in hosting technologies.

For more information about Canadianwebhosting.com’s affiliate program, please visit: www.canadianwebhosting.com/affiliate.asp.

To learn more about Canadianwebhosting.com, please visit: www.canadianwebhosting.com.

Newark, Delaware - (The Hosting News) - May 30, 2007 - ColdFusion web hosting solutions provider for small and medium-sized businesses, and Microsoft Gold-Certified Partner, HostMySite.com, has debuted free hosted accounts for the new release of Adobe’s ColdFusion 8 beta.

Adobe ColdFusion 8 was released in beta today as well, making HostMySite.com the first ColdFusion host to offer the new product to the developer marketplace. HostMySite.com has been selected by Adobe to be among the few elite ColdFusion web hosting companies to offer the free beta in order to demonstrate the functionality of the new release. Adobe ColdFusion 8 is a fast and easy way to create Internet applications. It solves the day-to-day challenges faced by developers, integrates in complex enterprise environments, and delivers rich and engaging application experiences for users.

Particularly well suited to dynamic Internet applications using a variety of databases, the new release of ColdFusion permits developers to easily extend and customize the ColdFusion scripting language, CFML, through custom tags, reusable object-based components, and user-defined functions, as well integrate with Java, .NET, and SOAP web services.

Mr. Tim Buntel, Senior Product Marketing Manager for ColdFusion at Adobe, remarked, ”Having a relationship with HostMySite.com has been great for us. They’ll offer accounts that allow customers to try out the ColdFusion 8 functionality on a shared hosting platform. If I had to say one thing about the release overall that this is Adobe ColdFusion. ColdFusion 8 shows what happens when you inject ColdFusion with Adobe’s DNA. It’s really about making a great experience for the application user, with PDF’s, rich Internet applications, multi-media presentations - much greater integration in the enterprise. We’re doing for .NET what we’ve done for java in the past as well. Additionally we’re enhancing the developer’s experience.”

HostMySite.com has been a pioneer in ColdFusion, hosting many of the industry’s premier ColdFusion websites - including those of ColdFusion guru Ben Forta, and also Tim Buntel’s ColdFusion website. The company has been offering ColdFusion since it’s inception in 1997, and continues to support innovation in ColdFusion web hosting.

Monish Sood, Director of Marketing at HostMySite.com added, ”HostMySite.com is committed to a strong partnership with Adobe ColdFusion and the entire ColdFusion developer community. This free ColdFusion 8 beta program will allow everyone with an interest in the new release to “test drive” the new features and to become familiar with the greatly expanded functionality now available. We look forward to seeing what the ColdFusion developer community can do with this impressive new product.”

Mr. Buntel added, ”For businesses running ColdFusion today there are compelling reasons to move to ColdFusion 8 even if you don’t rewrite a single line of code. Simply moving those applications to ColdFusion 8 will yield a range of benefits - it’s going to be faster, it’s going to be more stable, and applications can be monitored in production. Existing ColdFusion developers will be able to take advantage of the enhanced features very quickly and easily.”

Founded in 1997, HostMySite.com is a privately held provider of affordable managed dedicated servers, Virtual Private Servers (VPS), and shared web hosting solutions. With a combination of sophisticated hosting technology and applied business knowledge, HostMySite.com provides individuals, small businesses, and large corporations with affordable web hosting solutions with 24×7 customer support through toll-free telephone, e-mail, and live online chat.
HostMySite.com CEO Lou Honick has presented his ”Pillars of Customer Service” at several professional conferences this year including HostingCon, ISPCon Spring 2006, ISPCon Fall 2006, ITEC Dallas, and ITEC Indianapolis. Additionally, Mr. Honick was recognized as one of the ‘Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30′ by Inc. Magazine.

For more information about HostMySite.com’s
free ColdFusion beta accounts, please visit: www.hostmysite.com/cf8.

To learn more about HostMySite.com, please visit: www.hostmysite.com.

San Francisco, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - May 24, 2007 - Sun Microsystems, having recently deployed the support of web hosting services, in a partnership with Joyent and NaviSite, has instituted a broad release of its UTI Digital Certificate, through a Java verified program.

Designed to help drive worldwide mobile application security, the unified testing initiative was deployed to assist in the reduction of cost and complexity for developers, and ensure the quality of applications, while enhancing security.

The new installation for Java technology-based mobile and embedded handsets, will enable Java Verified signed applications to run on mobile phones. As a result, it is hoped that more end users will benefit from the availability of consumer friendly, quality-tested, traceable content from third party developers. In addition to the security aspects, signing applications with the UTI certificate greatly enhances the consumer experience by providing easier access to identified third party access rights with fewer prompts.

Sun also announced that new Unified Testing Criteria (UTC) Version 2.2, the application testing criteria for the Java Platform Micro Edition (Java ME), developed by UTI member companies, is now under review and planned for release in July 2007. Both of these efforts are part of a greater UTI goal to facilitate the growth of the mobile application market by consolidating individual company testing programs, minimizing complexity for the developer and reducing overall application deployment costs and time to market.

Laurie Tolson, Vice President of the Client Software Group at Sun remarked, ”The Java Verified Program is an important market enabler for world wide distribution of mobile content. Industry adoption of a common security certificate will help provide a better overall end user experience and ensure greater security for mobile applications across a broad range of devices.”

Under the UTI’s direction, Sun Microsystems operates the Java Verified Program, which helps enable developers, manufacturers and wireless operators to confidently create, deliver and monetize mobile content and services. All applications which pass the Java Verified Program are signed with the Java Verified Digital Signature and are eligible to promote their applications using the widely recognized Java Powered logo. They may also participate in the powerful Java technology branding program (among the top ten most recognized technology brands) and partnerships, including promotion on java.com.

The UTI is an open industry initiative consisting of LG Electronics, Motorola, Nokia, Orange/FranceTelecom, Samsung, Sun Microsystems, Sony Ericsson and Vodafone that creates testing criteria to address application deployment challenges and facilitate greater network security. Companies who participate in the UTI reduce their internal testing costs and ensure their testing requirements are addressed in the Java Verified Program, the only industry developed and supported application testing and signing program.

The Unified Testing Criteria focuses on several areas including how well an application behaves on a mobile device and basic usability of the application. Since its launch in early 2004, over 13,000 applications from more than 3,100 registered developers have been tested through the Java Verified Program and the number of developers and companies leveraging the program continues to grow. In addition, the program supports approximately 400 Java technology powered handsets — more devices than any other mobile application testing program, including all of the major global manufacturers.

The JavaOne Conference at San Francisco’s Moscone Center, is one of the leading events for Java technology developers. Established in 1996, the Conference provides technology enthusiasts the opportunity to learn about the latest technology innovations with Java technology, scripting, open source, Web 2.0 and more. Developers get hands-on experience with the technology, can network with their peers, and have the opportunity to network directly with technology experts from technology industry leaders.

Sun develops technologies designed to power some of the world’s most comprehensive markets, in more than 100 countries.

For more information about the UTI digital certificates, please visit: www.javaverified.com.

To learn more about the JavaOne conference, please visit http://java.sun.com/javaone.

To learn more about the new web hosting program, please visit: www.sun.com/startupessentials.

For more information about Sun Microsystems, please visit: http://sun.com.

Austin, Texas - (Website Hosting Directory) - May 22, 2007 - Web hosting application solutions developer, FiveRuns, unveils its new Rails Application Management Partner (RAMP) Program, with reseller and cooperative marketing incentives for enterprise and open source management platforms.

The RAMP program is designed to provide additional revenue and profit opportunities for new and existing partners who are deploying and reselling the FiveRuns Enterprise Management Platform and Management Suite for Rails. To help partners leverage FiveRuns’ capability to manage the complete Rails application lifecycle, the RAMP program offers dual tracks:

RAMP Reseller Program: Targeted at leading hosting providers, consulting firms, value added resellers, systems integrators, and Internet service providers, the RAMP Reseller Program enables organizations to include FiveRuns’ systems management capabilities as part of their offerings. The program provides Resellers differentiation, new revenue streams, as well as new tools to help their customers streamline operations and reduce costs.

RAMP Cooperative Marketing Program: For organizations that want to recommend FiveRuns’ systems management solutions to their customers, the RAMP Cooperative Marketing Program provides incentives for referrals to FiveRuns’ account teams. The program makes it easy and profitable to recommend FiveRuns to customers and enable them to reduce the complexity, risk and cost of their IT initiatives.

Dean Cruse, VP of Sales and Business Development at FiveRuns remarked, ”Partners are an important part of our success, and we have developed the RAMP program to make their selling process easier and more lucrative. The RAMP program is designed to allow our partners to leverage our technology as a competitive differentiator and revenue builder for their businesses.”

Several key partners have already joined the FiveRuns RAMP Reseller program, including Rails-focused hosting providers Blue Box Group, LLC and Engine Yard. Additionally, VirtualEvals, a provider of Web-based technologies to the health profession education market has signed as a RAMP Cooperative Marketing partner.

Jesse Proudman, President of Blue Box Group added, ”We are excited to be one of FiveRuns’ first partners, and believe their unique technology provides a true competitive advantage for our customers. We are eager to begin marketing this new service to both our existing customers and as a value add for potential customers. The combination of the FiveRuns solution with Blue Box’s powerful server platforms will provide customers with a complete and scalable environment for their Rails applications.”

Lance Walley, President of Engine Yard offered, ”FiveRuns’ focus on Rails led us to look at their solution for our customers. As the industry’s first solution for managing Rails environments, FiveRuns is a perfect compliment to our Enterprise Rails deployment and operations services.”

Web 2.0 Businesses choose Blue Box Group to host mission rails applications because of our commitment to the success their business, through development VPS platforms, to full-scale rails deployments utilizing 1 to more than 12 servers.

Engine Yard came about in early 2006 because of a genuine need: clients were developing business-critical Rails apps, but they didn’t want to worry about deployment issues, nor did they want to hire IT staff to manage servers. Clients wanted Rails-focused 24/7 operations support on top of great infrastructure, plus they wanted a smooth path from 100 users to 100,000 users.

VirtualEvals (www.virtualevals.org) is a web-based system through which health professions advisors can transmit letters of evaluation to health professions schools. In 2006, over 180 undergraduate colleges and universities and 175 medical schools used VirtualEvals to transmit letters of evaluation for over 14,000 applicants.

FiveRuns is a provider of enterprise-class management solutions for Rails, and other popular open source and commercial systems. Built on Rails and delivered as a hosted service, FiveRuns’ game-changing solutions provide relevant, intuitive and affordable management enabling organizations to save money and reduce operational complexity by managing the entire Rails application lifecycle - from installation to production.

For more information, please visit: www.fiveruns.com.