TextDrive Chooses Five Across Web Platform for Advanced Subscriber Services; Innovative Hosting Provider to Provide Web 2.0 Services Running on the Five Across Web Platform.SAN DIEGO San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , Calif. & PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif. -- Announced today at ISPCON ISPCON Internet Service Provider Convention (The Golden Group, Inc.) Fall 2005, TextDrive, Inc., a leading provider of advanced hosting services on the Internet, will launch a pioneering Web 2.0 service running the Five Across Web Platform. The new service enables users to create and maintain multi-page rich media websites, blogs and communities that provide advanced messaging and file sharing Copying files from one computer to another. See peer-to-peer network, file sharing protocol and file and printer sharing. capabilities. Non technical users of the service can create and maintain web pages and web blogs that contain digital photographs, movies, spreadsheets, audio files or other multimedia assets. "We have been looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a way to offer these kinds of services but until the Five Across Web Platform, there was nothing out there that provided this level of functionality and raw performance," said Ryan Schwartz, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. at TextDrive. "We benchmarked the Five Across Web Platform against Apache and many other available servers and the Five Across server just blew them away, handling as many as 6 million page serves per second." "We are really excited to be working with the team at TextDrive," said Peter Karnig, Vice President of Sales and Business Development at Five Across. "They offer world class service and will provide state of the art Private Label hosted services for ISPs and others that need an easy to deploy and maintain solution." About Five Across Founded in 2003, Five Across provides the Five Across Web Platform, a web publishing Creating a Web site and placing it on the Web server. A Web site is a collection of HTML pages with the home page typically named INDEX.HTML. Web sites are designed using Web authoring software which provides a graphical layout capability or by hand coding in HTML or both. and blogging platform with advanced communication and collaboration functionality that makes it easy for business and personal computer users to publish and share information. Five Across is based in Palo Alto, Calif., and is backed by leading investors Adobe Ventures and Granite Ventures Granite Ventures is a private venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco California. It has backed such companies as Tumbleweed Communications, Plumtree Software, Sendmail, and Westbridge Technology. . http://www.fiveacross.com/. About TextDrive Born out of a desire to run the best possible servers for those who publish on the web, TextDrive is a hosting company and infrastructure provider with a focus on quality, performance, security and 100% availability. TextDrive uses highly optimized, high-end servers, and features and develops some of the best tools for working with data, managing email, and serving words, images and sounds. TextDrive was formed by a unique coming together of open source developers and enterprise system administrators, and is the infrastructure behind projects like Textpattern, Wordpress, Ping-o-Matic, RubyOnRails and Turbogears. The result is a company that's capable of providing complete, scaleable solutions that span from network to applications. The TextDrive community is motivated by a deep affection for web technology; being perpetually struck by its facility for building communities, for fuelling debate, for showcasing endless diversion and fun, and for turning words and images from the private to the public in a blink. Five Across Instant Publisher, Five Across Instant Messenger AOL's instant messaging service. See AIM and instant messaging. , Five Across Web Platform, Five Across and the Five Across logo are trademarks of Five Across, Inc. All other company and product names are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. |
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