The vWebTop allows customers to choose from a menu of applications that includes collaborative groupware (email, shared calendar, etc.) and specialty applications (accounting, time & billing, etc.), which are vitally important to professional services firms. With the vWebTop, vFirm eliminates the hassle of managing software in-house, allowing their customers to focus on serving clients.

As a key component of the vWebTop, Punch WebGroups patented technology gives customers a secure file storage and collaboration service, which includes version tracking, audit trails, access controls, change notification and the fastest possible uploads and downloads. Such functionality, traditionally only available to large firms with big technology budgets, is now available to firms of any size through the vFirm and Punch partnership.

"Stability and superior functionality were key drivers for us in choosing a document management provider," says Tommy Blanchard, vice president of business development at vFirm. "Partnering with Punch Networks enables us to provide professional services firms with a best in class file storage and management system that is both cost effective and easy to use."

"vFirm is empowering a segment of the professional services market that has an undeniable need for the services they've built and aggregated in the vWebTop," said the president and CEO of Punch Networks. "Together we can deliver software and services to firms that need big company IT functionality, but don't have the internal resources or the budgets."

About Punch Networks Corporation
David Campbell founded Punch Networks in 1995. Based in Seattle, Wash., the company develops software and services that help people effectively manage changing digital information. The company's flagship product, Punch WebGroups, offers users robust file collaboration features via a standard Web browser. Punch Networks offers the Punch WebGroups service from its own site as well as co-branded versions of the service from partner sites. Punch also offers the service direct to companies as a hosted service for intranet and extranet use. Instant Folders, Punch's desktop-to-desktop file synchronization application, is based on the same core patented technology as Punch WebGroups.

For more information, visit the Punch Networks website at www.punchnetworks.com, email info@punchnetworks.com, or call (206) 343-7661.

About vFirm.com
vFirm provides web-based applications that give the small business professional an efficient, low cost and hassle-free alternative to purchasing and hosting applications themselves. By partnering with leading web-based application providers, vFirm has established a suite of collaborative groupware (email, contacts, shared calendar, chat, etc.) along with specialty applications (time & billing, accounting, etc.) that enables firms to quickly set up a secure, fully integrated, web-based virtual network giving co-workers 24-hour access to their information. vFirm Systems is located in Reston, Virginia. For additional information on vFirm or its product offerings, visit the vFirm website at www.vfirm.com or call 1-866-AT VFIRM.