Cambridge, UK, August 22nd 2003. Positive Software Corporation (NY) today announced their appointment of Altaire Limited as European Distributor for H-Sphere and Site Studio products, . H-Sphere, with over 1 million lines of code, provides the most advanced feature set of any web site hosting platform and has been marketed by Positive Software and its resellers for the past 6 years throughout the US and Europe. “The web hosting market is evolving and end users are now demanding more power and control without the need to contact support departments to action changes within their accounts. H-Sphere represents such a great leap forward in empowering end users that, coupled with the most powerful end user/reseller control systems available, it makes Positive Software the obvious choice for customers and partners” – Steve Ball, Altaire Technical Director.

Key functionalities
· Control both Windows and Unix/Linux hosting accounts
· Full integrated billing system and online invoicing
· Database hosting (MySQL, Microsoft SQL, PostgreSQL, and ODBC)
· Integrated ecommerce systems with 1 click install (Miva and osCommerce)
· Integrated WebMail systems
· RealMedia hosting (streaming media)
· Clustered servers scale to many thousands of servers with no downtime
· Fully integrated trouble ticket support system
· Completely brandable to resellers including dns servers and control panels
· Automated account signup
· Automated domain name registration
· Supports true Virtual Servers
· Allows resellers to package their own hosting plans to sell on

“The benefits to both new and existing European clients of H-Sphere should become evident quickly. With Altaire providing local sales support, in native languages, within the same time zones, a fast track support system and automatic escalation to Positive Software has been implemented. Local support teams ensure that International constraints are no longer an issue” – Igor Seletskiy, CEO, Positive Software

Altaire has points of presence throughout the UK, Germany, France and Netherlands with sales teams actively supporting the growth of the H-Sphere European customer base.

“H-Sphere is a very advanced system and Positive Software are a great company to work with. Their customers seriously leverage the technology to benefit the end users, which is something we are proud to be part of. , . Coupled with our existing and growing hosting infrastructure, our established blue chip customer base and local presence throughout the major European countries we see a great value proposition for both resellers and end users. We look forward to ensuring H-Sphere gains as much exposure as it deserves” – Steve Ball, Altaire Technical Director.

About Positive Software Corporation
Positive Software Corporation specialises in developing quality, easy to use tools for Internet Providers that dramatically reduce the cost of website administration, maintenance and support, along with utilities that make your site more user-friendly.

For more information contact:

Igor Seletskiy
Positive Software Corporation
info@psoft.net

About Altaire Limited
Altaire Limited is a leading provider of back end systems for the Web hosting industry. Altaire's services are used worldwide by service providers and their resellers to automate the provisioning and management of hosting offerings. Altaire currently provides services to some of the world’s largest companies. For more information please see http://www.hsphereeurope.com or http://www.Altaire.com

For more information contact:

Eleanor Fellows
Altaire Limited
+44 (0)8 4567 12345
Eleanor.fellows@altaire.com

For more information: http://www.HSphereEurope.com