Released on = April 10, 2007, 11:26 am

Press Release Author = Jeff Smith

Industry = Internet & Online

Press Release Summary = Zurich-based company expands European operations to San
Francisco; formally launches Collanos Workplace in North America



Press Release Body = SAN FRANCISCO -- April 10, 2007 - Collanos Software officially
introduced its powerful and proven, peer-to-peer (P2P) team collaboration suite in
North America. The company also opened its U.S. branch in San Francisco setting up
a dedicated team for North America led by Franco Dal Molin, President and Founder of
Collanos.

Collanos Workplace 1.0 is widely deployed throughout Europe and the United States.
It offers small business teams, students, faculty, and knowledge-sharing
professionals, an easy-to-use set of comprehensive collaboration tools. Collanos'
global collaborative network allows internet users to easily form teams and
effectively collaborate together on a shared passion, goal, or project. Collanos is
free, runs serverless, and is platform independent - available for Mac, Windows, and
Linux PCs.

Its unique peer-to-peer infrastructure allows users to finally have a collaboration
solution that is affordable. Anyone can invite colleagues, friends, or partners to
a team workspace where members can immediately share and organize their files, notes
and links, lead discussions, and assign tasks. Collanos\' peer-to-peer technology
keeps workspaces in sync by storing a copy of the shared workspace locally on each
individual PCs.

"In the past, effective collaboration services have primarily focused on enterprise
organizations," said Franco Dal Molin. "In doing so, small businesses,
telecommuters, students, dispersed, ad-hoc, and cross-organizational teams could not
afford licenses or the IT infrastructure to run and maintain the collaboration
system."

"Collanos now reduces the entry barriers to effective teamwork support by offering
free, fully functional collaboration solutions that empower internet users to do
things together more efficiently and productively, and without requiring additional
expensive investments in technology and support," said Peter Helfenstein, CEO of
Collanos.

According to Collanos user Mark Frazier, President of Openworld, "Collanos is
delivering the teamware solution that Openworld has been searching for. We are a
non-profit organization working with aspiring entrepreneurs from all over the world
who are moving into online telework markets. Collanos makes it affordable for us to
share innovative collaboration solutions with entrepreneurs who otherwise could not
afford such tools. Having Collanos now in the United States will allow us to work
closely with them in building an application that will greatly benefit millions of
people around the world."

Links:
Download Collanos Workplace: http://tinyurl.com/2hhkpn
Screenshots: http://tinyurl.com/2lx22d
Blog: http://blog.collanos.com
Collanos: http://www.collanos.com

About Collanos Software
Collanos is a global startup that focuses on the collaboration needs of teams who
demand a secure, cross-platform, server-less solution, on- and off-line. By
leveraging open-source technologies, open standards, the familiarity of existing
tools, and a global development model, Collanos delivers a friendly, all inclusive
team-based solution that combines the benefits of classic client/server, web, and
peer-to-peer architectures.

Collanos was founded in November 2003 and has offices in San Francisco and Zurich,
Switzerland.

Contact:
Jeff Smith
FutureWorks
408-428-0895 Ext. 103
jeff@future-works.com


Web Site = http://www.collanos.com

Contact Details = Jeff Smith
FutureWorks
408-428-0895 Ext. 103
jeff@future-works.com