TeleComputing Evaluates New Managed Services Platform; ASP Pioneer Reviews Microsoft's Exchange 2000

Business Wire, June 6, 2000

Business Editors/Technology Writers

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 6, 2000

In a continuing effort to offer customers the latest services, TeleComputing, the world's first and leading supplier of Microsoft Windows-based computing services that extend from the server to the desktop, is currently evaluating Microsoft Exchange 2000 as a service offering. Utilizing Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server, TeleComputing customers will be able to take advantage of a rich set of managed messaging and collaboration services.

"We are particularly excited about Exchange 2000, being evaluated at our Research and Development Center, because it will enable TeleComputing to provide increased performance, security, reliability and scalability to our worldwide customers," said Jack Blount, TeleComputing Chief Technology Officer. "In fact, we've already begun the process of certifying Exchange 2000 services for operation in the TeleComputing ASP model."

Exchange 2000, which builds on the strengths of Exchange Server 5.5, currently being used by TeleComputing, features real-time communications, unified messaging capability, improved Outlook Web Access, and Instant Messaging that can help businesses improve communication and productivity. It can also host large numbers of concurrent users, allow each customer more storage capacity and scale up or down easily as customers' needs change. Improved security features will give customers the option of managing some of their own Exchange services such as user accounts, folder management and user limits.

"We are pleased that TeleComputing is considering the use of Exchange 2000 as a platform for hosted messaging and collaboration solutions," said Kevin Breunig, group product manager for Business Productivity Group Marketing at Microsoft Corp. "We believe that its expertise as an application service provider combined with Exchange 2000 can provide customers with a reliable, scalable hosted messaging and collaboration infrastructure."

In production since 1997, TeleComputing has extensive experience in providing service to the desktop for key mission critical applications utilizing service platforms such as Exchange 2000. "We're proud to have developed a strategic alliance with Microsoft, and anxiously await Microsoft's official launch of Exchange 2000 so that we can begin offering it as part of TeleComputing's core service," added Blount.

About TeleComputing

TeleComputing, founded in Norway, is the world's first and leading provider of Windows applications delivery and computing services that extend from the server to the desktop. As a pioneering Application Service Provider (ASP), TeleComputing helps manage Information Technology (IT) costs and complexity, while improving accessibility, reliability and security.

From four secure data centers, TeleComputing supports customers in more than 200 locations throughout Europe and the United States, each accessing a variety of applications from their desktops for a fixed monthly fee. In addition to offices in Norway and another one in Sweden, TeleComputing opened its US headquarters in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1999, and co-located its application hosting server farms in highly-secure Exodus data centers. TeleComputing has strategic business relationships with Microsoft, Citrix Systems and Compaq, as well as an extensive network of ASP resellers and system integrators that sell and support its services in North America and Europe. For more information on TeleComputing, go to www.telecomputing.net.