Metadot Announces Subscription Version of Popular Open Source Portal Server

Metadot Corporation, the developer of one of the world's most popular free, open source portal server solutions, today announced the availability of the Metadot Portal Server Business Edition. With subscriptions starting at $2,000 per year for varying levels of customer support, the Metadot Business Edition enables individuals to easily create and maintain extranets, intranets, corporate Web sites, project and community portals.

The Metadot Business Edition user interface is browser-based, enabling authorized content editors to update Web pages from any location. Anyone who can type can create Web pages and edit content, which eliminates the need to call the IT department to correct typos or add information to a page. The Metadot Business Edition not only frees up an organization's IT staff to pursue more business-critical tasks, it helps everyone in an organization collaborate and use time more efficiently.

Price and ease-of-use, combined with more than 20 business-specific functionalities, sets the Metadot Business Edition apart from other portal applications. The application allows users to manage files, calendars, to-do lists, online forums, documents, online discussions, database queries, customer surveys and newsletter mailing lists from an easy-to-use Web interface. The Metadot Business Edition also includes login support, where Metadot engineers can log in to a customer's system and fix problems in record time.

"Our goal is to provide individuals with an uncomplicated way to implement, manage and maintain their Web sites, particularly small businesses, educational institutions, project teams and/or individual departments inside a corporation. We can help people and companies build sophisticated Web sites easily without spending too much of their money in the process," said Daniel Guermeur, president and CEO of Metadot.

Annual subscription fees for the Metadot Business Edition start at $2,000, which includes the Metadot Portal Server, installation support, software updates, professional customer support, access to Metadot's online training center and optional managed hosting. The Metadot Portal Server runs on Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl, although it also runs in commercial environments such as Sun Solaris, Microsoft Windows, Oracle and more.

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