Mi8's Exchange Hosting Voted MSExchange.org Readers' Choice Award Winner

Business Wire, Oct 21, 2004

NEW YORK -- Leading Microsoft Exchange Server resource site, MSExchange.org, announced today that Mi8's Exchange Hosting was selected the winner in the Exchange Hosting category of the MSExchange.org Readers' Choice Awards.

"Our Reader's Choice Awards give visitors to our site the opportunity to vote for the products they view as the very best in their respective category," said Stephen Chetcuti, MSExchange.org manager. "MSExchange.org users are specialists in their field who encounter various solutions for Exchange Server at the workplace. Their vote serves as a solid peer-to-peer recommendation of the winning product."

MSExchange.org conducts regular polls to discover which product is preferred by Exchange administrators in a particular category of third party solutions for Microsoft Exchange Server. The awards draw a huge response per category and are based entirely on the visitors' votes. MSExchange.org users can submit their votes for the current Readers' Award poll in the site's left-hand bar.

About Mi8's Exchange Hosting

Mi8 is the world leader in Microsoft Exchange 2003 hosting and management. In providing Exchange and related technologies as hosted or managed services, Mi8 functions as an extension of an organization's Information Technology team, monitoring and managing these sophisticated systems (and user accounts), enabling an organization to focus internal resources on their core business functions and client-facing technologies.

Mi8 provides Microsoft Exchange Server via two delivery models:

--Microsoft Exchange Hosting: Mi8 offers Microsoft Exchange Hosting, where Mi8 delivers Microsoft Exchange 2003 as a network-based service. This innovative approach provides Fortune-500 class IT infrastructure, operations and services to any size company, offloading internal IT departments and helping companies focus on their core business functions. (This model is also known as the "application service provider," or ASP, delivery model.)

--OnSight(tm) Exchange System: Mi8 delivers Exchange 2003 via the OnSight Exchange System, a fully tested, field-proven architecture installed on the customer premises to maximize performance and minimize cost, tied into Mi8's world-class network operations center for unparalleled operations and management. (This model is also known as the "managed service provider," or MSP, delivery model.)

Mi8 also offers a wide range of services that enhance the value of our Microsoft Exchange 2003 hosting services, including:

--An easy-to-use account management and administration system: "Q Admin"

--Advanced Email Perimeter Services (anti-virus, spam control, and more)

--Support for wireless messaging, including the BlackBerry devices from RIM, wireless Pocket PC and Palm handhelds, Treo Smartphones, and other devices

-- Fax-to-email services

-- And much, much more.

About MSExchange.org

MSExchange.org (http://www.msexchange.org) is a Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5/2000/2003 resource site. It is the leading Exchange site, attracting over 120,000 Exchange administrators and specialists a month. The site provides the latest Microsoft Exchange Server news, articles and tutorials by leading Exchange experts, message boards, software listings and product reviews.

MSExchange.org forms part of a group of sites run by Internet Software Marketing, including http://www.windowsnetworking.com - a comprehensive Windows Networking resource site; http://www.serverfiles.com - a network software directory; http://www.isaserver.org, a Microsoft ISA Server resource site; http://www.windowsecurity.com, a Windows security resource site; http://www.secinf.net, a network security library; and http://www.ntfaxfaq.com, a Windows 2000/NT fax solutions site.

About Mi8 Corporation

Headquartered in New York City, Mi8 has been the premier outsourcer of Microsoft Exchange hosting services since 1997, enabling organizations to reduce costs, accelerate deployments, and focus on core business activities instead of building a highly available messaging infrastructure. Mi8 leverages high performance Internet and wireless technologies to deliver these application services to any device, any time, anywhere. Mi8 works directly and through partners such as EDS (www.eds.com) to deliver services to small and mid-sized businesses and to Global 2000 enterprises. With offices in New York City; Austin, TX, London, UK; Paris, France; and Munich, Germany, Mi8 supports thousands of subscribers worldwide, including Columbia Heart Clinic, the IAAF, J Crew, Oxygen Media, and Safety-Kleen. Mi8 is an ISO 9001:2000 registered company. More information is available at www.mi8.com.

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For more information about Mi8's Exchange Hosting, please contact: info@mi8.com

For more information about MSExchange.org, please contact us at info@msexchange.org