MUNICH – January 10, 2008 – Spiceworks™, Inc., the provider of the industry’s first free ad-supported IT management software, today announced that it has expanded its partnership with IDG to include distribution of a co-branded version of the Spiceworks IT Desktop in Germany. The news follows on the heels of a recent deal between IDG U.K. and Spiceworks to distribute the Spiceworks IT Desktop for download to readers of Techworld, the U.K.’s leading site for network managers. As part of the new agreement with IDG Germany, a co-branded version of the Spiceworks IT management application will be available for download on TecChannel. Users of the application will also have access to pre-loaded TecChannel RSS news feeds within the downloadable Spiceworks IT Desktop.
In addition to their co-branded distribution deal, Spiceworks and IDG also announced that TecChannel will represent advertising sales for Spiceworks in Germany. The Spiceworks IT Desktop is supported by displaying relevant, contextual ads within the application on topics that are useful to IT professionals.
The Spiceworks IT Desktop is currently being used by more than 200,000 IT professionals in 185 countries around the world, including over 40,000 users throughout Europe. The software, which is designed for small and medium organizations with networks of up to 250 devices, allows IT professionals to automatically discover, inventory, monitor, track and report on the hardware and software running in a network, while having access to an integrated help desk and IT expert community collaboration capabilities.
Dirk Limburg, Publisher, TecChannel said: “TechWorld’s U.K. readers receive excellent value from the combination of TechWorld content and the Spiceworks IT Desktop. We’re pleased to be making the same capabilities more readily accessible to our German IT Experts on TecChannel as well. The combination of the IT management features from Spiceworks and the valuable information from TecChannel makes our co-branded solution ideal for Small-Medium Business in Germany and beyond.”
Scott Abel, founder and CEO of Spiceworks said: “Working together with IDG, we are able to offer small businesses an application that helps them better manage their IT assets, while providing one-click access to the latest news and information they need to do their jobs. Our partnership is showing tremendous promise in Europe and we’re pleased to be expanding the reach of the Spiceworks IT Desktop to more small businesses in Germany.”
The Spiceworks IT Desktop is the industry’s first free, ad-supported IT management application. Organizations around the world rely on the Spiceworks IT Desktop to manage more than 7 million hardware devices and software applications that together support 5.4 million employees.
For more information or to download the free Spiceworks IT Desktop software, visit www.TecChannel.de.
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