New partnership offers customers 6 months free hosting on DiscountASP.NET and a markdown on VWG products

July 7, 2009 – DiscountASP.NET, a leader in ASP.NET hosting, announces a partnership with Gizmox, the developer of Visual WebGui, a comprehensive rich Internet, Cloud & SaaS application platform that provides powerful, richer, and faster application development.

Under this partnership, DiscountASP.NET customers can receive a $50 discount on the Visual WebGui Professional studio. Visual WebGui users can get 6 months free hosting for the first year of DiscountASP.NET’s base ASP.NET hosting annual plan.

"DiscountASP.NET recognizes that Visual WebGui is a powerful platform and has built a large user base,” said DiscountASP.NET's Vice President of Marketing, Takeshi Eto. "We specialize in ASP.NET hosting and are always interested in partnerships that provide our customers with the most advanced tools that make their life easier and their web applications richer.”

Visual WebGui offers a series of open source products atop its innovative rich Internet applications (RIA) platform, which together enable the unique Visual WebGui desktop-like developer experience that leads to the simplest, most cost-effective development and deployment of rich data centric applications on the web/cloud.

“The DiscountASP.NET and Visual WebGui partnership is a great fit,” said Roy Goffer, Online Marketing Manager of Gizmox. “DiscountASP.NET focuses on cutting-edge ASP.NET hosting while Visual WebGui deploys like a standard ASP.NET and provides tools to help developers and ease their efforts to bring their applications to life.”

About Visual WebGui
Visual WebGui, http://www.visualwebgui.com, is the first open source RIA development and deployment platform to extend desktop power to the internet atop standard .NET. Visual WebGui allows users to built much more powerful, richer and faster UIs using a control and theme designers in addition to the drag-and-drop visual form designer, and deploy to the Web or Cloud as AJAX or Silverlight UIs. Developing Web applications in Visual WebGui requires no learning curve for Windows developers who feel more at home programming in Visual Basic, C#, and other desktop native programs, cutting development time up to a proven 90 percent. More than 35,000 VWG applications have been built, and are in production, at enterprises such as SAP, IBM, Israel Aerospace Industry, and multi-national companies such as Visa and Texas Instrument.

About Gizmox
Gizmox, the developer of Visual WebGui open source platform and a member of the Microsoft Visual Studio Industry Partner (VSIP) program and other partner programs, was founded in July 2007. Gizmox enables Web-like desktop platform; its SDK has been downloaded by more than 350,000 individuals and software houses with more than 35,000 active community members. The company is funded by Venture Capital and private investors. One of the founders and active chairman of the board is Professor Arie Scope founder of Microsoft's Israel subsidiary, and its former General Manager and Chairman for 16 years.

About DiscountASP.NET
DiscountASP.NET is an innovative global leader in Microsoft Windows hosting, focused on providing the best value in ASP.NET hosting. A Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, DiscountASP.NET is one of the first hosting providers to offer Windows Server 2008 hosting, SQL Server 2008 hosting and MVC hosting. Through strong word-of-mouth and their commitment to ASP.NET and SQL Server technology, DiscountASP.NET has become the choice for affordable enterprise-class ASP.NET web hosting. For more information, visit http://www.DiscountASP.NET

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Media Contacts

Roy Goffer
Gizmox, LTD.
Tel: +972-9-767-3063
Email: Roy.Goffer@gizmox.com

Marissa Levy
NCSM Strategic Marketing
Tel: +972-2-563-1892
Email: Marissa@ncsm.co.il