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SAN JOSE, CALIF. – Feb. 20, 2007 – FutureWorks PR, an award-winning New Media PR agency, announced that it has joined Collanos Software’s global network of marketing and public relations teams. FutureWorks will collaborate with Collanos’ lead agency, Jenni Kommunikation, www.jeko.com and will head their media, analyst, and blogger relations in North America.

In the past, premium collaboration services have been primarily targeted at enterprise organizations. Collanos becomes the first company to offer free collaboration solutions to all internet users, anywhere in the world. Teams who were unable to deploy expensive collaborative services can now instantly embrace Collanos Workplace without any dependence on servers, IT personnel, or license fees. Collanos users can select their choice of operating system, take their data offline, and securely work together on team projects.

“FutureWorks has earned an impressive reputation for navigating the convergence between traditional, social, and new media landscapes. We look forward to working with them to reach the teams that can greatly benefit from the use of Collanos Workplace,” said Peter Helfenstein, CEO of Collanos.

“Collanos is providing teams with free Collaboration tools that will help them become more productive on their own without requiring an investment in enterprise-class software and administrative support,” said Brian Solis, principal of FutureWorks. “Collanos will truly benefit many, and we will do what it takes to help them share the benefits with the masses,”

About Collanos Software
By leveraging open-source technologies, open standards, the familiarity of existing tools, and a global development model, Collanos delivers a friendly, all inclusive team-based solution that combines the benefits of classic client/server, web, and peer-to-peer architectures. Collanos was founded in November 2003 and has offices in San Francisco and Zurich, Switzerland.

Collanos Workplace can be downloaded for free from www.collanos.com.
More information: www.collanos.com, blog.collanos.com.

About FutureWorks, Inc.
With offices in Silicon Valley and San Francisco, FutureWorks, www.future-works.com, partners with market leaders and emerging companies to increase visibility, spark conversations and customer-pull, cultivate markets and create new opportunities that are necessary to expand business.

The agency’s specialty lies in its ability to understand technology and in turn, present market-specific, real-world solutions for specific markets and people. FutureWorks combines PR, social tools, and grassroots marketing for intelligent, results-driven communications programs that impact the bottom line.

Contact:
Lisa Christopher
Lisa [at] future-works.com
408-428-0895 Ext. 106

We just picked up an interesting poll, run by Rod Boothby, asking users to vote for

tools that could be used by a large company to create a readable and writeable Intranet

Collanos Workplace seems to be faring pretty well! If nothing else, the poll provides a good shortlist of strong players in the business.

The question is quite interesting and not a trivial one. Although plenty has been written about it, I was not able to find a Wikipedia definition for “read/write web”, let alone “read/write intranet”.

Someone will have to start an article about it!

Collanos Workplace 1.0 GA (i.e. General Availability) is ready for download. Here’s our press release…

Zurich, San Francisco, December 14, 2006 — Today Collanos Software announced the release of Collanos Workplace 1.0 for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Its p2p collaboration client software addresses the collaboration and teamwork needs of small teams. Users can create workspaces, share documents, start discussions, and assign tasks to team members.

“Workplace 1.0 is our basic software offering which we will always provide to internet users for free. Collanos Software becomes the first vendor to provide a free p2p cross-platform collaboration solution that goes beyond free email and instant messaging solutions. Home users and companies can now invest their money in activities that further increase the value of their teamwork,”

commented Franco Dal Molin, President and CTO.

Collanos unveiled plans to up-sell premium services in later versions: new software features that will accelerate, secure, and enhance a customer’s collaboration experience. Ultimately, Collanos Software aims to become a global-networking hub that will assist Collanos Software’s users to connect with others and to start and manage new projects.

Collanos is able to provide this free benefit to millions of potential users because it is built on a reliable open source p2p infrastructure. Juan Carlos Soto, Sun Microsystems vice president, Software, said:

“We are thrilled to see Collanos’ product applying JXTA p2p technology to automate and synchronize team collaboration. Teams can now securely share files and other resources in a trusted, cooperative, and highly available p2p network. Using Java and JXTA technologies, Collanos has created a platform independent, and a secure p2p collaboration software that strengthens teams and the ideas they create.”

During the six-months Beta program, downloads of Collanos Workplace p2p teamwork software surged steadily, thus generating great anticipation among users and industry observers.

Collanos Workplace 1.0 for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux is now available to download at Collanos.

Zürich/San Francisco, 14. Dezember 2006 - Collanos Software gibt die sofortige Verfügbarkeit von Collanos Workplace 1.0 bekannt. Die Software für Windows, Mac OS X und Linux ist auf die Bedürfnisse von kleineren Gruppen ausgerichtet und ermöglicht eine effiziente Zusammenarbeit in organisations- und plattformübergreifenden Teams. Die kostenlos erhältliche Software steht per sofort unter http://www.collanos.com zum Download bereit.

Mit Collanos Workplace 1.0 liefert das Unternehmen einen plattformübergreifenden Software Client zur Zusammenarbeit in verteilten Teams, mit dem sicher auf gemeinsame Informationen wie Kontakte, Team-Diskussionen, Dokumente, Teamkalender, Aufgaben und Projektinformationen zugegriffen werden kann. Dabei muss keine aufwändige Server-Infrastruktur unterhalten werden.

“Workplace 1.0 ist unser Basisangebot, welches wir Anwendern heute und auch in Zukunft kostenlos zur Verfügung stellen werden. Mit diesem Angebot ist Collanos das erste Softwareunternehmen, das eine plattformübergreifende Collaboration Lösung anbietet, welche mehr bietet als bloss Instant Messaging und Email. Gerade Teams mit Mac oder Linux Anwendern haben lange auf eine solche Lösung gewartet. Heimanwender und Unternehmen können mit dem Einsatz von Workplace 1.0 ihre Produktivität ohne finanziellen Aufwand markant erhöhen”,

kommentiert Franco Dal Molin, Gründer und Chief Technology Officer, Collanos Software AG.

Das Unternehmen gibt weiter bekannt, dass es gemeinsam mit Partnern in naher Zukunft kostenpflichtige Premium Erweiterungen auf den Markt bringen wird, welche zusätzliche Teamwork-Funktionen beinhalten wird. Collanos hat sich zudem zum Ziel gesetzt, eine Art globaler Networking Hub zu werden, welcher Anwendern dabei hilft, sich mit Anderen virtuell zu treffen, um gemeinsam Projekte zu starten.

Dadurch, dass Collanos Workplace auf einer zuverlässigen Open Source Peer-to-Peer Infrastruktur aufbaut, können potenziell Millionen von Benutzern profitieren. Juan Carlos Soto, Vice President Software bei Sun Microsystems, meint:

“Wir sind begeistert, dass Collanos JXTA Peer-to-Peer Technologie für die Automatisierung und Synchronisation ihrer Lösung nutzt. Damit können die Teams in einem sehr zuverlässigen Peer-to-Peer Netzwerk sicher Informationen austauschen. Indem Collanos Java und JXTA Technologien anwendet, hat das Unternehmen eine plattformunabhängige, sichere und netzwerkunabhängige Software geschaffen, die Teams die Zusammenarbeit massiv erleichtert.”

Das Programm wurde in den letzten sechs Monaten mittels eines öffentlichen Beta-Programms erprobt. Stetig ansteigende Download-Zahlen zeigen die grosse Erwartungshaltung unter Benutzern wie Marktexperten.