Collanos Software Launches Free Team Collaboration Solution

Today Collanos Software Launched Collanos Workplace 1.0, the First GA Version of its Flagship Team-Collaboration Application

ZURICH, Switzerland & SAN FRANCISCO--(EON:Enhanced Online News)--Today Collanos Software announced the release of Collanos Workplace 1.0 for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Its collaboration client software addresses the collaboration needs of small teams. Users can create workspaces, share documents, start discussions, and assign tasks to team members.

“Workplace 1.0 is our basic offering which we will always provide to internet users for free. Collanos becomes the first vendor to provide a free cross-platform basic 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 features that will accelerate, secure, and enhance a customer’s collaboration experience. Ultimately, Collanos aims to become a global-networking hub that will assist Collanos’ 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 peer-to-peer infrastructure. Juan Carlos Soto, Sun Microsystems vice president, Software, said: “We are thrilled to see Collanos' product applying JXTA peer-to-peer technology to automate and synchronize team collaboration. Teams can now securely share files and other resources in a trusted, cooperative, and highly available peer-to-peer network. Using Java and JXTA technologies, Collanos has created a platform independent, and a secure network collaboration product that strengthens teams and the ideas they create.”

During the six-month Beta program, downloads of Collanos Workplace 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 http://www.collanos.com.

About Collanos Software

Collanos is a global startup that focuses on the collaboration needs of teams who demand a secure, cross-platform, server-less solution, on- and off-line. By leveraging open-source technologies, open standards, and a global development model, Collanos provides home and business users with a strong team-based solution that combines the benefits of classic client/server, web, and peer-to-peer architectures. Collanos Workplace can be downloaded for free from www.collanos.com. Collanos was founded in November 2003 and has offices in San Francisco and Zurich, Switzerland.

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