Verio, Inc., a subsidiary of NTT Communications and a provider of managed hosting solutions, today announced that NTT Communications has introduced its new Open Computer Network (OCN) Hosting Service for Windows, a Microsoft Windows-based shared hosting suite, offered for the first time to small and medium sized enterprises in Japan.

The company says that the suite encompasses products and services essential for small businesses and developers to establish and manage a presence on the Internet, including a variety of Windows-based hosting plans that meet the diverse needs of small businesses in Japan. The OCN Hosting Service also offers Verio's MultiSite technology that enables customers to host multiple domain-based web sites within one shared hosting plan. OCN Hosting Service customers can host up to 25 sites with unique URLs, all under one account to save costs.

The service also enables web developers to create more dynamic and complex web sites through the use of ASP.NET and Microsoft SQL Server 2000.

"The extension of the Open Computer Network service to the Japanese market speaks volumes to the flexibility and scalability of the Windows platform, as well as to the success achieved with the service in North America," said Pascal Martin, General Manager of Worldwide Hosting at Microsoft. "By using Windows as the hosting platform, NTT Communications' customers can take advantage of the tens of thousands of developers creating applications and services based on the .NET Framework."