Summit Strategies a Leading Technology Analyst Recognizes Smart Online as a Top Vendor in Software-as-Services Market

Summit Strategies a Leading Technology Analyst Recognizes Smart
Online as a Top Vendor in Software-as-Services Market 


RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., April 18  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Smart
Online(R), Inc. (OTC:SOLN) (BULLETIN BOARD: SOLN)  announces Summit Strategies
has acknowledged the company as a top pure-play net-native vendor in the
Software- as-Services (SaS) market in their recent report written by Phil
Wainewright, titled "Software Powered Services:  Net-Native
Software-as-Services Transforms The ISV Business Model."

Mr. Wainewright's report highlights how the SaS model is going to radically
change the landscape of the software industry, "No conventional player can
afford to underestimate the transformational impact of the net- native model,
nor how radically it will alter the ground rules of the packaged application
business. Even though the timescales are lengthy, there is precious little time
left for traditional ISVs and other IT industry players to adequately prepare
for the scale of change that is going to take place."

About Smart Online

Smart Online, Inc., http://www.smartonline.com/ , is one of the pioneers of
Web- native applications and is the first vendor to offer a private label
syndicated online business platform that enables Web delivery of critical
applications and services for small-to-medium businesses. Smart Online led the
industry by converting to Software-as-Service (SaS) Web delivery in 1999.
Today, the company markets Web-based applications to customers via Smart
Online's Web site and by private labeling its syndicated software services for
use on large corporate Web sites in the financial services, media,
manufacturing and telco industries.

Further Information

For further information regarding risks and uncertainties associated with Smart
Online's business, please refer to the Risk Factors Section of Smart Online's
SEC filings, including, but not limited to, its Annual Report on Form 10-K for
the year ended December 31, 2004, copies of which may be obtained on the
website of the Securities and Exchange Commission.  All information in this
press release is as of April 18, 2005. Smart Online undertakes no duty to
update any forward-looking statement or to conform the statement to actual
results or changes in Smart Online's expectations. 

DATASOURCE: Smart Online, Inc.



CONTACT:  Thomas Furr of Smart Online, Inc., [phone], or

 



Web site:  http://www.smartonline.com/ 

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