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Micron ASP HostPro opens for business
Despite fluctuations in the nascent application-hosting sector, HostPro, the services division of PC maker Micron Electronics (muei), is making its debut. The Los Angeles-based company on Tuesday unveiled its first hosted-application offering, geared toward small and midsized businesses--companies that typically don't have the resources or the capital to afford and manage enterprise-level software.
Despite fluctuations in the nascent application-hosting sector, HostPro, the services division of PC maker Micron Electronics (muei), is making its debut.
The Los Angeles-based company on Tuesday unveiled its first hosted-application offering, geared toward small and midsized businesses--companies that typically don't have the resources or the capital to afford and manage enterprise-level software.
The company's new hosted-application service, dubbed HostPro Advanced Messaging, rents Microsoft's Outlook and Exchange Server 2000. The messaging service is available now, starting at a monthly subscription price of $19.95 per mailbox, with no base fee. Eventually, HostPro said, it will charge companies $24.95 monthly per mailbox for the service and a one-time set-up fee of less than $100 per customer. --Melanie Austria Farmer, Special to ZDNet News