OnForce, World's Largest Marketplace for IT Service Professionals, Announces Germany and U.K. Expansion Plans

BOSTON, Dec. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- OnForce, the world's largest marketplace for IT service professionals, today announced that it will expand into Germany and the United Kingdom. Presently, the company is accepting user registrations in these countries. Interested firms and individuals can register to receive advanced notification, periodic updates about the company's expansion plans, and be first in line when the marketplaces launch in 2008. Because OnForce is purely on-demand, it is 100 percent free for buyers and providers to join.

OnForce, which has more than 10,000 highly qualified service providers in its U.S. marketplace, has become the industry standard for IT service organizations of all types and sizes to find off-payroll IT professionals. Since its inception, more than 500,000 work orders have been successfully completed through the OnForce marketplace.

The company recently expanded its operations into Canada and announced the completion of a $6.75 million Series A1 financing round, led by London-based Accel Partners, the venture capital firm behind Facebook, that will be invested in the company's growth, including its international expansion.

"In the U.S., OnForce has become an industry standard as the best way to find contract IT service professionals. We're excited to take our industry- leading position and apply it in the U.K. and Germany to create a robust marketplace for local IT and consumer electronics professionals," said OnForce CEO Peter Cannone.

The OnForce marketplace includes a wide spectrum of IT and consumer electronics categories including computers, printers, networking, point of sale, VoIP, flat panel TVs and home theater. OnForce matches service buyers with the IT professionals who are best suited to meet their needs, based on each provider's skills, past performance, and location.

German service buyers and providers can now register for more information on OnForce's German Web site, www.onforce.de, while U.K. service buyers and providers can register for more information at www.onforce.co.uk. To see the OnForce marketplace in action, please visit the U.S. site at www.onforce.com and to search more than 10,000 service professional who have completed 500,000+ work orders.

OnForce has received platform endorsements and awards from Gartner Research and U.S.-based Software and Information Industry Association for marketplace ingenuity.

About OnForce

OnForce is the world's largest marketplace for contract IT service professionals. The company enables VARs, service organizations and IT staffing companies to find highly qualified IT professionals in virtually every zip code in the U.S. and Canada. These IT service firms turn to OnForce to expand their geographic and skill set coverage without adding overhead or upfront expense. OnForce enables increased buyer control and reduced

management costs, while improving service levels and offering faster response times than traditional methods of finding contract technicians.

Since its inception, the OnForce marketplace has been used to successfully complete more than 500,000 work orders. The OnForce community is made up of 5,000+ IT service buyers and 10,000+ IT service technicians who work in a number of technology categories, including computers, printers, networking, VoIP, point of sale and consumer electronics. For more information, visit www.onforce.com.

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