Brinkster Inc. Delivers One Click Hosting Service for Developers Using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Featured on Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Start Page

Brinkster Incorporated, the Web hosting company focused on Active Server Pages (ASP) and Microsoft .NET, today announced it is a featured hosting company in the final release of Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, offering both free and paid hosting services to developers using Visual Studio .NET.
Brinksters announcement coincides with the announcement from Microsoft Corp. of the general availability of Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, which was made during a keynote speech at Fawcettes VSLive! conference in San Francisco today.
"We have been working with Microsoft on the One Click Hosting program since its inception," said Brinkster president and CEO Jared Stauffer. "The services we offer fit perfectly into Microsoft's vision for fostering the development of Visual Studio .NET-based applications XML Web services."
"We appreciate the work that Brinkster has done to enable our customers to easily host Visual Studio .NET-based applications and XML Web services," said David Lazar, group product manager for the Developer and Platform Evangelism Division at Microsoft Corp. "Brinkster has been working with us for many months to provide a premier hosting service based on the Microsoft .NET platform."
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET empowers developers to rapidly design broad-reach Web applications for any devices on any platform. Users can now click a Web hosting referral tab that takes them to a list of hosting companies that offer free and paid hosting services, enabling them to experience building applications in this new world of software as a service.
With a developer-focus, Brinkster offers two levels of service: the General package, a free space to test and build sites using Microsoft .NET; and a Premium package, a paid service with additional features such as 25 installed components, increased bandwidth, 25 e-mail accounts, FTP and Microsoft ASP.NET support. Brinkster membership at any level gains developers access to a proprietary CodeBank, articles, forums and cutting-edge solutions.
"Working with Microsoft to make our services not only available to but also compatible with Visual Studio .NET has been a wonderfully challenging and mutually rewarding experience. We think users of Visual Studio .NET will be taken aback by the ease of use Visual Studio .NET allows when building software as a service," commented Stauffer.

About Brinkster
Founded in 1999, Brinkster is a premier ASP hosting destination on the Internet for Microsoft developers. The high quality/low cost service, active-active redundant server set-up and developer focus enables small to mid-market programmers unconstrained creativity in design of fully functional and interactive Web sites. Brinkster is a featured hosting company in Visual Studio .NET, offering both free and paid hosting services to Visual Studio .NET users. For more information, please visit the Brinkster site at http://www.brinkster.com.

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