Crystal Tech

CrystalTech Web Hosting™, a Newtek Business Services™ company (NASDAQ: NEWT) and a leading provider of Windows Web hosting, announced today the release of ColdFusion 8 hosting plans.

Phoenix, AZ (IPRWIRE) Thu, August 16th, 2007 — The upgrade to ColdFusion 8 not only expands the features of CFMX 7, but also builds on the strong relationship between CrystalTech and the Adobe community. This also continues CrystalTech’s support of the ColdFusion development and gives CrystalTech customers an effective way to deploy a ColdFusion site.

“CrystalTech has a well-respected reputation within the ColdFusion developer community for our advanced infrastructure, fast adoption and affordability,” said Robert Cichon, President of CrystalTech. “We are very proud to offer our renowned support to developers and look forward to continuing our commitment to bringing the latest technology to our new and existing customer base.”

This new version of ColdFusion adds new features for developers including interactive debugger, multi-threaded processing, Adobe Flex™ integration, .NET integration, strong encryption libraries, and provides administrator and RDS account sandboxing.

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CrystalTech Web Hosting™, a Newtek Business Services™ company (NASDAQ: NEWT) and a leading provider of Windows web hosting, announced the impending release of a new beta hosting plan featuring the latest version of Microsoft’s .NET framework, version 3.5.

Phoenix, AZ, July 13, 2007 – While the upcoming release of Microsoft’s .NET framework contains several bug fixes and updates (so-called “red bits”), it also brings a number of new assemblies and technologies (so called “green bits”) that net developers have been waiting to get their hands on. These green bits include AJAX, LINQ for both C# and VB, and enhancements to the tool sets that will help ease building applications using Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows Communication Foundation.

“CrystalTech prides itself as one of the premiere Microsoft partners specializing in Windows web hosting,” said Robert Cichon, CrystalTech President. “We have been part of the Beta program with Microsoft and .NET since day one, and we were one of the first, if not THE first, to have a full-fledged web site management application based on the .NET framework. Our WebControlCenter™ is a prime example of the reliability, stability and security you can get when using the .NET framework.”

As with previous beta hosting plans CrystalTech offered, the plan based on .NET 3.5 will be free for a limited time. The Plan will offer enough disk space and bandwidth so that early adopters can get running on .NET 3.5 as quickly as possible. In addition…

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