Web Crossing, Inc. Releases New Weblog Plug-in; Now Powerful and Flexible Weblog Functionality Integrates Into Online Collaboration Environment Without Programming.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 3, 2003

Web Crossing, Inc. today announced a powerful Weblog plug-in to quickly and easily publish Blogs in a Web Crossing 5.0 environment. The flexible and intensely feature-rich Weblog plug-in is free for a limited time for any Web Crossing 5.0 installation. Available immediately, additional details and a download of the plug-in can be found at http://www.webcrossing.com/weblogs/.

"The Weblog plug-in for Web Crossing 5.0 is awesome," said Dan Shafer, long-time industry pundit, author and veteran blogger (http://www.eclecticity.com). "The two-tiered design for posts allows me to limit what appears on my pages to pithy introductions that summarize longer 'think' pieces. This plug-in has all the features of all of the other blog tools I've looked at and then some, coupled with a powerful database engine underneath it all to make this a compelling tool."

"The Weblog Plug-in makes it incredibly easy to add blogging to any Web Crossing collaborative environment," explained Tim Lundeen, president and CEO of Web Crossing, Inc. "We've been using these blogs in-house to quickly share progress reports and company information. The Weblog Plug-in is a great example of how easy it is to extend Web Crossing's core functionality in just minutes, without any programming."

Weblog Plug-in Offers Power and Flexibility

The new Weblog plug-in is a quick download and installs directly into a Web Crossing 5.0 environment and with no configuration necessary. The Weblog plug-in instantly extends the system to include easily customizable, flexible Weblogs with support for categories. Web Crossing Weblogs can be access protected, with access groups designated at the time of posting, to display a particular Weblog or a single entry, only to those authorized to view it.

Web Crossing's Weblog plug-in supports "moblogging," allowing users to post from email-enabled mobile phones. Users can be notified of Weblog updates via email or RSS subscriptions, and can post via Web forms or standard email. Web Crossing Weblog posts appear instantly with no FTP required. Providing multiple presentation options, the Weblog plug-in allows standard, individual blog posts, a summary-style post with link to the complete article, or "forum" view with visitor comments. Weblogs can also easily and thoroughly integrate with the award-winning Web Crossing discussion tools.

Weblogs can be owned by a single user or managed by a team of bloggers. Web Crossing's Weblog technology is also extensible supporting both the Blogger API and Metaweblog API. Weblog entries can be formatted without HTML, spell-checked, and auto-archived. Web Crossing's lightning fast search applies to Weblog entries and comments, including items that have been archived.

Easy Install in the Latest Web Crossing version 5.0

The new Weblog plug-in highlights the new customization and extensibility architecture of the recently released Web Crossing version 5.0 that includes appearance themes, page component options, and more. The new Plug-in architecture in Web Crossing 5.0 makes it easy for administrators to add and update software modules in just a few clicks. Plug-ins are downloaded by simply clicking on the "shop for plug-ins" link from within the Control Panel.

Web Crossing 5.0 also includes a new WebFiles mirroring system used with Web Crossing 5.0's new built-in Web publishing feature, that allows users to create and edit entire home page directories via most modern browsers. All files added or modified using WebFiles or FTP are automatically synchronized in real-time with the host file system for additional flexibility and simplicity when maintaining large sets of files.

Pricing and Availability

The Web Crossing Weblog Plug-in is free for a limited time with any Web Crossing 5.0 installation, whether licensed or ASP model. The recently announced Web Crossing 5.0 upgrades are available on a traffic-based sliding scale starting at $119.

New copies of Web Crossing 5.0 are also available as a sliding-scale traffic-based software license starting at $295, or server hosted (ASP) solution for maximum uptime starting at $65/month. Professional services, community hosting and community management consulting are available for all Web Crossing installations.

Web Crossing Express is a free Web/Mail/FTP Server environment with the scalable, core server power of Web Crossing. Web Crossing Express does not support discussions or accept plug-ins. Web Crossing Express can be upgraded as needed to Web Crossing without any reinstallation.

About Web Crossing, Inc.

Privately held, Web Crossing, Inc. is a leader in collaboration tools, committed to providing high-quality software and related services at a fair price. Award-winning Web Crossing is a scalable, tightly integrated collaboration tool serving a broad-spectrum of functionality and serves millions of pages per day at thousands of sites, including well-known, high traffic sites as eBay.com, The NY Times and Autodesk. Team Crossing, Campus Crossing and Support Crossing are turnkey solutions for the group collaboration, online education and technical support markets respectively. Web Crossing Express is a free package, offering superb server functionality for Web, email, and FTP services. Available licensed or ASP, all Web Crossing software is easily customizable and highly extensible without programming. Further information on can be found at http://www.webcrossing.com/.

Web Crossing, Web Crossing Express, Team Crossing, Campus Crossing, Support Crossing, and webcrossing.com are trademarks of Web Crossing, Inc. or its subsidiaries. All other brands and products referenced herein are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.