click2try Exhibits Virtual Open Source Apps at LinuxFest Northwest

Spreading the word about virtualized Open Source to LinuxFest attendees

HOUSTON, April 21 // -- click2try (http://www.click2try.com), a community site that makes it easy to try and use Open Source software, today announced it will be demonstrating its click2try.com site featuring virtualized Open Source applications at LinuxFest Northwest 2009 (http://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org).

click2try hosts a catalog of more than 40 Open Source applications that visitors can try for free, right from a browser, without downloading any software. The catalog provides resources for each application, including links to major application development sites, as well as links to documentation, tutorials, and reviews. Additionally, click2try provides its own original content, including quick start guides and tutorials, as well as video tutorials for some applications.

The applications currently include content management applications Joomla!, Drupal, SilverStripe, WordPress, Wiki platforms like TikiWiki, DokuWiki, and MediaWiki, ERP applications like OpenERP, PostBooks, and Openbravo, CRM applications SugarCRM and vTiger, project management tools like dotProject and GanttProject, monitoring and network management tools like Cacti, human resource management systems OrangeHRM and TimeTrex, a variety of developer tools including Trac/SVN, Eclipse, Bugzilla, Mantis, Request Tracker: RT, Redmine, productivity tools like Freemind and OxygenOffice, and Linux distributions like CentOS.

You can find a complete list of applications at http://www.click2try.com/catalog/

"The click2try mission is to drive the widespread adoption of Open Source software by making it as easy to use as it is to visit your favorite website," says Mario Grech, click2try CEO. "We're excited to be a part of the 10th anniversary of LinuxFest Northwest, and look forward to meeting as many Linux and Open Source fans as possible."

About LinuxFest Northwest

The tenth anniversary of this event, being held April 25-26 in Bellingham, Washington, will feature internationally recognized speakers from leading companies and well-known open source projects, as well as exhibits and demonstrations for a wide range of interests and technical abilities, appealing to those looking for cost effective technical solutions. A non-profit corporation registered in the state of Washington, LinuxFest Northwest was founded to educate the public about all aspects of open source software, and is an all-volunteer organization.

About click2try

click2try is a content-rich, Community-driven Web site for sourcing, testing, evaluating, and hosting existing Open Source software products on pre-configured virtual appliances. With the most comprehensive collection of information on selected Open Source software applications online, click2try is committed to extending the access and the usability of Open Source software to as many people as possible by making it simple, reliable and economical to use. For more information, visit http://www.click2try.com/.

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click2try(TM) Demonstrates Virtualized Open Source Delivery at SouthEast LinuxFest

Spreads the word about Open Source with Silver Sponsor status

HOUSTON, June 2 // -- click2try, a community site that makes it easy to try and use Open Source software, today announced it will be demonstrating its click2try.com (http://www.click2try.com) site featuring virtualized Open Source applications at SouthEast LinuxFest on June 13th at Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina.

click2try provides a catalog of more than 40 Open Source applications that visitors can try for free, right from a browser without downloading any software. The catalog provides resources for each application, including links to the main development sites, as well as links to documentation, tutorials, and reviews. Additionally, click2try.com provides quick-start guides and tutorials, as well as video tutorials for some applications.

SouthEast LinuxFest is led and organized completely by volunteers, and is sponsored by a number of commercial sponsors, including click2try. The speakers at the SouthEast LinuxFest are a veritable Who's Who of the Linux, Open Source, and Free Software communities, and represent such projects and companies as OpenSuse, Red Hat, Fedora, Google, Canonical/Ubuntu, Sun Microsystems, Digium, Slackware, and many others. The event is open and free to the public.

"We're proud to be part of this community and to be involved in SouthEast LinuxFest. Our mission is to make it as easy to use Open Source software as it is to visit your favorite website," says Mario Grech, click2try CEO. "Each time we attend one of these events, we meet very insightful people that help us improve the Open Source experience for those visiting the website. We are looking forward to showing off the site at Clemson and receiving feedback from the LinuxFest attendees."

click2try includes Open Source community applications, exclusively. The applications currently include content management applications Joomla!, Drupal, SilverStripe, WordPress; Wiki platforms like TikiWiki, DokuWiki, and MediaWiki; ERP applications like OpenERP, PostBooks, and Openbravo; CRM applications SugarCRM and vTiger; project management tools like dotProject and GanttProject; monitoring and network management tools like Cacti; human resource management systems OrangeHRM and TimeTrex; a variety of developer tools including Trac/SVN, Eclipse, Bugzilla, Mantis, Request Tracker: RT, Redmine; productivity tools like Freemind and OxygenOffice; and Linux distributions like CentOS. Upcoming distros include Ubuntu, Fedora Core, and others.

About SouthEast LinuxFest

SouthEast LinuxFest, held Saturday, June 13th in Clemson, South Carolina, will feature internationally recognized speakers from leading companies and well-known Open Source projects, as well as exhibits and demonstrations for a wide range of interests and technical abilities, appealing to those looking for cost-effective technical solutions. SouthEast LinuxFest (SELF) was founded to educate the public about all aspects of Open Source and Free software, and is an all-volunteer organization. For more information, visit http://www.southeastlinuxfest.org/.

About click2try

click2try is a content-rich, Community-driven Web site for sourcing, testing, evaluating, and hosting existing Open Source software products on pre-configured virtual appliances. With the most comprehensive collection of information on selected Open Source software applications online, click2try is committed to extending the access and the usability of Open Source software to as many people as possible by making it simple, reliable and economical to use. For more information, visit http://www.click2try.com/.

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click2try(TM) Adds XOOPS CMS to Content Management System Offerings

Addition of popular Open Source CMS widens choice for content, website, and blog management

HOUSTON, May 26 // -- click2try(TM) (http://www.click2try.com) today announced that it has added XOOPS Dynamic Web CMS version 2.3.3 (http://www.xoops.org) to its online catalog of virtualized Open Source applications. A Community site, click2try enables users to try applications for free and use by subscription.

XOOPS is a Web application platform written in PHP for the MySQL database. Designed with an object-oriented architecture, XOOPS is an ideal tool for developing small or large community Web sites, company intranets, portals, blogs, and other types of Web-based applications. XOOPS, short for eXtensible Object Oriented Portal System, provides a full-featured administration console that makes it easy to manage a site, pages, and user access. Like other modern content management systems, XOOPS offers customizable themes, and a set of user-supplied modules for added functionality.

With a total of five virtualized content management systems in the click2try catalog, users can evaluate and use WordPress, Joomla!, Drupal, and SilverStripe -- in addition to XOOPS. Supported by large user communities, each of these content management products provides sets of features to help individuals and small and large organizations create blogs, Web sites, collaboration systems, and manage large amounts of online content.

"XOOPS is a great content management system that has been around for a long time and has a large community of users and developers," says Tom Callaghan, click2try VP Operations. "XOOPS offers over 60 themes right out of the box, as well as a complete user management system. By adding XOOPS to our catalog, we continue to provide our customers a wide choice of solutions."

XOOPS is a truly international project, with hundreds of developers from around the world providing modules to extend the XOOPS capabilities. Because XOOPS uses the Smarty templating system (http://www.smarty.net), designers and users can apply their own custom templates without affecting internal XOOPS operations. This ease-of-use helps explain the tens of thousands of XOOPS users around the world.

click2try is dedicated to providing a way for individuals and companies to easily evaluate and use the best content management systems in the Open Source market. Visitors to the site (http://www.click2try.com) can try any of the applications for free. click2try offers affordable service plans for those customers who want to use the applications on a persistent basis. Subscribers can save data and share applications and data with other registered users. click2try hosts over 40 Open Source applications in its VM Jukebox(TM), with new applications added weekly. All applications and data are stored securely within a hardened network infrastructure at the company's data center in Houston, Texas.

About click2try

click2try is a content-rich, Community-driven Web site for sourcing, testing, evaluating, and hosting existing Open Source software products on pre-configured virtual appliances. With the most comprehensive collection of information on selected Open Source software applications online, click2try is committed to extending the access and the usability of Open Source software to as many people as possible by making it simple, reliable and economical to use. For more information, visit http://www.click2try.com/.

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    Press Relations
    press@click2try.com
    (713) 401-9654, ext. 700

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