The publisher of the Sitefinity CMS (http://www.sitefinity.com ) and a leading vendor of UI components for .NET, Telerik, and a Microsoft gold certified shared hosting provider, DiscountASP.NET (http://www.discountasp.net ), today announced the two companies have partnered to extend a unique offer to the INETA User Group (UG) community.

The offer will facilitate the management of their daily activities and help UGs enhance collaboration between its members.

VP of Business Development at Telerik, Nadia Terzieva, declared: "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". "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."

User groups will receive a free Sitefinity Standard edition license (worth $899) and free Windows hosting (worth $240/year). UG members are empowered, by leveraging the special, custom-built DNUG website template, integrated into Sitefinity, to organize events, publish presentations, share files and photos, write blogs or news, participate in forums and polls, create job or sponsor listings, etc.

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

For a free Sitefinity license and Asp.net hosting, .NET user group members can sign up for this exclusive offer at http://www.sitefinity.com/product/features/free-offer.aspx.