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Wed Mar 15 INIT
Interliant and Microsoft Team To Bring Hosted Exchange ISV Solutions To Market - Business Wire
Wednesday March 15, 8:27 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
Interliant and Microsoft Team To Bring Hosted
Exchange ISV Solutions To Market
Microsoft Invests $10 Million in Leading ASP
PURCHASE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 15, 2000--Interliant, Inc. (Nasdaq:INIT - news), a leading application service provider (ASP), today announced a commercial agreement with Microsoft to develop application hosting services on the Windows© 2000 Server and Exchange 2000 Server platforms. In addition, Microsoft made a strategic investment of $10
million in Interliant. The investment was in the form of convertible subordinated notes.
As part of the agreement, Interliant and Microsoft will work together to develop tools to make it easier for independent
software vendors (ISVs) and solution providers to develop more powerful hosted, collaborative applications on the Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server platform. Interliant will also develop and offer services that help ISVs to develop hosted applications for Microsoft's collaboration platform. This agreement builds on Microsoft and Interliant's relationship to build hosted services which extend Windows 2000 Server and Exchange 2000 Server.
Providing ISVs with the tools necessary to develop hosted applications for Exchange 2000 Server will help make Exchange available to a broad range of knowledge workers. The growing availability of managed, hosted application services based on Exchange 2000 Server will enable customers to deploy messaging and collaboration more quickly, and will make such solutions more cost-effective for smaller organizations with limited IT resources.
``Expanding for ISVs the availability of new, high-performance application hosting services based on Exchange is a key component of Microsoft's efforts in this industry,' said Thomas Koll, vice president of the Network Solutions Group at Microsoft. ``Interliant's skills in providing services and technology for the ASP marketplace, integrated tightly with Microsoft products and platforms, create a powerful combination for businesses looking to deploy collaborative applications on the Internet.'
``Collaboration is at the foundation of the new ebusiness economy,' said Herb Hribar, CEO of Interliant. ``By teaming with Interliant, Microsoft is leveraging the undisputed leader in collaborative application hosting services and opening up a new world of opportunity and value for customers and partners. ISVs looking for new ways to quickly and easily deploy applications that support team and process-focused solutions will find new channels and business opportunities driven by Microsoft and Interliant's ASP services.'
About Interliant, Inc.
Interliant, Inc. (Nasdaq:INIT - news) is a leading application service provider (ASP) and pioneer in the ASP market.
Interliant's solutions enable companies of all sizes to capitalize on the latest Web-based technologies and packaged software applications quickly and cost-effectively by relieving them of the burdens associated with building, managing and maintaining the infrastructure required to support mission-critical applications. Interliant's offerings include solutions in the following areas: Web
site hosting, messaging and knowledge management, security, e-commerce, customer relationship management, enterprise
resource planning, distributed learning, and Web-based rental applications via AppsOnline.com. Interliant is headquartered in Purchase, N.Y. and has formed strategic alliances with leading software, networking and hardware companies including Dell Computer Corporation (Nasdaq:DELL - news), IBM (NYSE:IBM - news), Lotus Development Corp., Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT - news), BMC Software (Nasdaq:BMCS - news), and Network Solutions (Nasdaq:NSOL - news). For more
information, please visit the Interliant Web site, www.interliant.com.
Interliant is a registered trademark of Interliant, Inc. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective companies.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended, and Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. Any statements contained herein that are not
statements of historical fact may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. Actual results and the timing of certain events
may differ significantly from the results anticipated or discussed in the forward-looking statements. These forward-looking
statements are based largely on the Company's current expectations and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties. In
addition to this press release, other important factors to consider in evaluating the forward-looking statements include, without
limitation, those discussed in the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended June 30, 1999 and
September 30, 1999, respectively, the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed on March 15, 1999, as amended,
and other filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In light of these risks and uncertainties, there
can be no assurance that the forward-looking statements contained herein will in fact be realised and the Company assumes no
obligation to update this information.
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