Nuremberg, Germany - (The Hosting News) - February 25, 2009 - Provider of open source collaboration software, Open-Xchange, is making available to qualifying partners, an offering of free webmail, calendaring and contact infrastructure.

Rafael Laguna, CEO of Open-Xchange noted, ''With our easily scalable open source infrastructure, we are able to offer partners a unique solution for these economically challenging times. By adding Open-Xchange, service providers, educational institutions, government and other non-profits get a secure, scalable, cost-effective webmail client for all their users for free -- and can offer an upgrade to mobile device support and fully-featured groupware.''

Qualifying partners such as web hosting providers, telcos, ISPs, as well as academic institutions and non-profit organizations can take advantage of a fully-maintained webmail module, which includes installation and configuration support of the Open-Xchange software.

Philbert Shih, research analyst, Tier 1 Research remarked, ''Offering rich e-mail as an alternative to Exchange is a must-have for hosters from a competitive perspective, plus it creates revenue streams and positions hosters to sell complementary services that solidify their relationship with customers. The collaboration and groupware capabilities that Open-Xchange brings to proprietary e-mail platforms is one way for hosters to introduce mid-market, rich e-mail platforms -a growing opportunity driven by the growth in web-enabled mobile devices and an increasingly mobile workforce.''

The promotion is intended for partners with large numbers of existing e-mail users that require business-class, user-friendly webmail. The special offer requires partners to offer their customers higher-value Open-Xchange features, such as support for mobile devices. There are three tiers in the promotional offer for partners with:
* More than 100,000 e-mail accounts;
* Between 10,000 and 100,000 e-mail accounts;
* Less than 10,000 e-mail accounts.

Built as open source software, Open-Xchange is an affordable alternative to commercial e-mail/collaboration platforms like Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint providing an equivalent user experience with features like mobility support (iPhones, Blackberry), document sharing, shared calendars and shared address books. The simple, intuitive software facilitates effective teamwork by improved communications.

Open-Xchange is a provider of scalable and integrated open source e-mail and collaboration solutions for enterprises, academic institutions, and government authorities. The company provides on-premise versions called Open-Xchange Server Edition and Open-Xchange Appliance Edition, along with Open-Xchange Hosting Edition, which enables web hosting companies to provide an easy-to-use and feature-rich application delivered as Software as a Service (SaaS). The Open-Xchange Hosting Edition is architected to integrate into a hosting provider's existing infrastructure, such as authentication, provisioning, billing, and e-mail storage and does not require that these systems be replaced.

Open-Xchange Server is installed by more than 3,500 companies and organizations worldwide. Leading hosting providers, led by Network Solutions (U. S.), 1 and 1 Internet (Germany), JMF (Japan), OVH (France) and Hostpoint (Switzerland) provide more than 8 million users worldwide with hosted business-class e-mail, personal information management (PIM), and full groupware solutions built on Open-Xchange.

Open-Xchange AG is a privately-held company headquartered in Nuremberg, Germany with offices in Olpe, Germany and Tarrytown, N.Y.

For more information, please visit: www.open-xchange.com.

Through these new tools, Rackspace customers can also access Greenspace web resources to learn more about climate change and effective steps they can take to reduce their carbon impact, like reducing wasteful packaging practices and using energy efficient hardware. These customers will also be able to learn how they can mitigate their global warming emissions by purchasing high quality carbon offsets from NativeEnergy, where there is a focus on helping new renewable energy projects get financed and built so that energy from these projects can displace energy that otherwise would have to come from burning fossil fuels, a major contributor to global warming. Businesses can also save their data and track their progress over time with these new tools.

Tom Boucher, President and CEO at NativeEnergy remarked, ''Many companies want to do more to reduce their potential negative impact on the planet. Rackspace is not only leading the way, the company is engaging its customers to support real and effective solutions that can help businesses reduce their environmental impacts and achieve corporate goals.''

Rackspace is a longtime proponent of the Green movement and makes conscious efforts to continue making positive changes to decrease its and its customers' carbon footprint. Specifically, Rackspace designs all data centers with power conservation in mind and also operates one facility on renewable energy. Rackspace is currently working towards its LEED certification for the company's corporate headquarters. In addition, Rackspace leverages energy efficient hardware and equipment which consume less electricity. Each year, Rackspace hosts its annual ''Green Day'' event inviting vendors and nonprofit organizations to present employees with environmentally friendly tips. Ongoing employee education campaigns and the Green Council, an employee led group focused on green education and sustainability, are additional ways in which Rackspace shows its commitment to the environment.

As the leader and specialist in hosting services, Rackspace Hosting is changing the way businesses worldwide buy IT. Rackspace delivers computing-as-a-service, integrating the industry's best technologies into a flexible service offering, making computing more reliable and affordable. A trusted partner to companies of all sizes, Rackspace enables IT departments to be more effective. Rackspace is distinguished by its award-winning Fanatical Support, furthering the company's mission to be one of the world's greatest service companies. Rackspace is recognized as one of FORTUNE Magazine's 100 Best companies to work for in the US, ranking number 43 on the 2009 list. Rackspace's portfolio of hosted IT services includes managed hosting, email hosting (www.mailtrust.com) and cloud hosting (www.mosso.com).

NativeEnergy leverages market demand for carbon offsets to bring online new Native American, family farmer and community-owned renewable energy projects. Native Energy offers third-party verified and certified renewable energy credits, and offsets from a variety of operating projects across America and internationally. Through its novel approach of bringing upfront payment to renewable projects for the estimated future carbon offsets, NativeEnergy enables its clients to help directly finance the construction of specific new wind farms and other renewable energy projects.

Continuing to focus on real, additional offsets that provide both an environmental and a social benefit, more information is available at www.nativeenergy.com. NativeEnergy is a founding member and Co-Chair of the International Carbon Reduction and Offset Alliance. www.icroa.org.

For more about the calculator, please visit: www.rackspace.com/information/events/green/nativeenergy.php#begin.

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This is Mr. Keselowski's second year driving for GoDaddy.com, the world's dominant web hosting domain registrar. Keselowski's performance last season turned out to be exactly what Go Daddy expected from the 25-year-old, who is mentored by one of NASCAR's greats: Go Daddy spokesman Dale Earnhardt, Jr. In 08, Keselowski finished third in points in the Nationwide Series, posting two wins, 11 top-five finishes and 20 top-ten finishes.

This has been a tough year for NASCAR drivers in terms of sponsorships. The economy has forced many longtime corporate sponsors to pull out. Go Daddy, however, experienced unprecedented corporate success in 2008 and, in turn, expanded its sponsorship of Dale Earnhardt, Jr., JR Motorsports, HMS Motorsports and Keselowski.

Bob Parsons, CEO and Founder at Go Daddy remarked, ''NASCAR and GoDaddy.com are a great fit. NASCAR fans are loyal just like Go Daddy customers; NASCAR drivers have a winning spirit like our employees; and most of all, our team gets a real charge out of being associated with all of these great people and this sport.''

Mr. Parsons, the driving force behind this year's incredibly successful Go Daddy Super Bowl advertising campaign, actually helped design the No. 88 GoDaddy.com Chevrolets as well.

GoDaddy.com sponsors JR Motorsports in 20 Nationwide Series races this year. Earnhardt will race the No. 5 GoDaddy.com Chevrolets in the series - cars which Dale Jr. designed.

Go Daddy will also sponsor Keselowski in seven Sprint Cup Series races in the No. 25 GoDaddy.com Chevrolets.

Go Daddy's foray into racing sponsorships started with the company's support of IndyCar's Danica Patrick in 2006. That sponsorship continues this year as well. Patrick, a Go Daddy Girl and IndyCar's most popular driver, starred in Go Daddy's 2009 Super Bowl ad campaign.

The Camping World 300 NASCAR Nationwide Series airs live Saturday on ESPN2 at 1 p.m. E.T. Viewers of ESPN2's coverage will get the chance to see Go Daddy's newest commercial campaign, featuring Dale Jr., Brad and Go Daddy Girl Candice Michelle on Saturday as well.

Go Daddy is a leading provider of services that enable individuals and businesses to establish, maintain and evolve an online presence. Go Daddy provides a variety of domain name registration plans and web site design and hosting packages, as well as a broad array of on-demand services. These include products such as SSL Certificates, Domains by Proxy private registration, ecommerce web site hosting, blog templates and blog software, podcast packages and online photo hosting. The Go Daddy Group, Inc. has more than 33 million domain names under management. Go Daddy registers, renews or transfers a domain name every second. GoDaddy.com is the world's No. 1 domain name registrar according to Name Intelligence, Inc. GoDaddy.com is also rated the world's largest hostname provider according to Netcraft Ltd. During 2008, The Go Daddy Group registered more than one-third of all new domain names created in the top six generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz and .mobi.

To learn how more about Go Daddy, please visit: www.godaddy.com.