Partnership to provide a free website for .NET user groups.

DiscountASP.NET, a Microsoft gold certified shared hosting provider and Telerik, the publisher of the Sitefinity CMS and a vendor of UI components for .NET, today announced that they have partnered to extend a unique offer to the INETA User Group community. It believes that the offer will help UGs enhance collaboration between its members and facilitate the management of their daily activities.

The company states that the user groups will receive a free Sitefinity Standard edition license and free Windows hosting. By leveraging the special, custom-built DNUG website template, integrated into Sitefinity, UG members are empowered to organize events, share files and photos, participate in forums and polls, write blogs or news, publish presentations, create job or sponsor listings, etc.

"DiscountASP.NET does what we can to promote .NET technology and we are more than happy to provide .NET hosting for .NET user groups,” said Takeshi Eto, VP of Marketing at DiscountASP.NET. “We look forward to hosting a thriving .NET user group community."

"Telerik has a long standing relationship with the .NET UG community, and the feedback and support we receive from UG members is extremely valuable to us," said Nadia Terzieva, VP of Business Development at Telerik. "We are happy that we have the opportunity to give back to UG members, by making it easy for them to have a brand new website up and running in a matter of hours, with the help of the specially developed DNUG template and INETA manual."