AppRiver LLC, a leading provider of business email security solutions, announced today that its AppRiver Hosting was selected the first runner-up in the Exchange Hosting category of the MSExchange.org Readers' Choice Awards.

MSExchange.org, a leading Microsoft Exchange Server resource site, conducts regular polls to discover which product is preferred by Exchange administrators in a particular category of third party solutions for Microsoft Exchange Server.

"Our Reader's Choice Awards give visitors to our site the opportunity to vote for the products they view as the very best in their respective category," said Sean Buttigieg, MSExchange.org manager. "MSExchange.org users are specialists in their field who encounter various solutions for Exchange Server at the workplace. Their vote serves as a solid peer-to-peer recommendation of the winning product."

Targeted at the corporate, government and educational markets worldwide, AppRiver's Exchange Hosting with Shoreline™ reduces the complexity and investment required to provision and maintain Exchange 2003, enabling administrators to benefit from the mobility, data synchronization and collaboration offerings of Exchange with minimal training and technical support. The Shoreline Control Panel empowers end users, providing a web-based Outlook configuration wizard that allows them to set up accounts, access email settings for mobile devices, view mailbox usage and reset their own passwords.

AppRiver's Exchange environment features a clustered and redundant architecture that eliminates the opportunity for a single point of failure, and the hosting facilities are SAS 70 level II Audited.

"We are extremely pleased by this recognition," commented Michael Murdoch, AppRiver's CEO. "Network administrators who work with Exchange on a daily basis are the most critical audience for our solutions and we could not receive a more significant endorsement."

The MSExchange.org awards draw a huge response per category and are based entirely on the visitors' votes. MSExchange.org users can submit their votes for the current Readers' Award poll in the site's left-hand bar.