1. Introducing UForge
A New Factory for Delivering your Applications to the Cloud
Introducing UForge to the Market : Press Release February 9th 2010

2. Why This Presentation
• Pre-briefing to UForge market introduction Feb 9th 2010
• You have been identified as a Cloud and Virtualization
industry influencer
• We have something unique that we would like to present to
you before market launch
• We would be delighted to continue to update you on a
regular basis with real time news
• Offer you and your community specific access and
privileges to UForge SaaS Platform
Thank you for the time that you are giving us!
Introducing UForge to the Market : Press release February 9th 2010 © UShareSoft – All rights reserved

3. UShareSoft
• The Appliance Factory Company
• Started in 2007
• HQ in Europe, ramping up in US and Japan
• Team of former experienced Sun and HP professionals
• Software automation and product life-cycle for
virtualization & cloud computing
• Finished Beta phase in Dec 09, market launch Feb 2010
• Award OSEO “Concours de l'Innovation 2008”
“First enterprise platform that hugely
simplifies how software appliances are built,
maintained, & deployed ”
Introducing UForge to the Market : Press release February 9th 2010 © UShareSoft – All rights reserved

4. The Birth of Software Appliances
A New Approach to Software Delivery Required
“The costs of human resources for producing, operating and maintaining
software will soon become prohibitive” Source Forrester March 9, 2009
Solution Complexity Version Sprawl
More Formats
Inconsistent Manual Process TTM Too Long
Introducing UForge to the Market : Press Release February 9th 2010

5. Market Launch Feb 9th 2010
Introducing UForge & Open Appliance Studio
Introducing UForge to the Market : Press release February 9th 2010 © UShareSoft – All rights reserved

6. What is Unique!
• Complexity made simple - visual design, build in minutes
• No impact to existing applications (instant integration)
• OS & Format agnostic
> CentOS, Fedora, RedHat, Debian, Ubuntu, Open Solaris
• Integrated qualified open source catalogue, growing every
day, 60 projects today
• Full automation with total flexibility for modeling, version
control, cloning, and generation of many Cloud &
Virtualization formats
• Many unique features such as JeOS, Software Entitlements...
• OAS VApps : Making multi-node solution appliances possible
Introducing UForge to the Market : Press release February 9th 2010 © UShareSoft – All rights reserved

7. What is unique for ISVs!
Without Changes to your Apps go to the Cloud with Unique Features
Complexity made 14 Standard OS Qualified Open
Simple Versions Source Catalogue
Works with Granular Factory OAS vApps
Standard Apps automation Making Multi-VM
Solutions
Possible
Scale your Business & Expand Your Channels
x10 Deployment Time Works with any Build Once,
App to the Cloud Deploy Anywhere
Simple, Predictable & 60% Engineering Channel Friendly
Consistent Savings Business Model
Deployments
Introducing UForge to the Market : Press release February 9th 2010 © UShareSoft – All rights reserved

8. ISV Ramp to the Cloud
Focusing on ISVs, Developers and IT professionals
Introducing UForge to the Market : Press release February 9th 2010 © UShareSoft – All rights reserved

9. UForge Open Source Catalogue
Major Open Source Operating Systems Supported
(Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora & Open Solaris)
60 of the Top Open Source Projects Qualified and Ready to Use
Introducing UForge to the Market : Press Release February 9th 2010

10. Creating vApps
with Open Appliance Studio
Simple. Predictable. Consistent.
Automatically Deploying Distributed Solutions on
Physical, Virtual & Cloud Environments
vApps - IT solutions packaged into a single appliance
Introducing UForge to the Market : Press release February 9th 2010 © UShareSoft – All rights reserved

11. Growing Partnerships
Engaging with ISVs and Plugging into Open Source Communities
Strategic Partnerships with Hosting & Cloud Providers Ongoing
Introducing UForge to the Market : Press Release February 9th 2010

12. contact@usharesoft.com
www.usharesoft.com
Introducing UForge to the Market : Press Release February 9th 2010