Brett Quance
Vice President, Business Development
BlueCat Networks, Inc.
(905) 882-5691
www.bluecatnetworks.com
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Q1: What do you think will be the industry buzz in 2002?
A1: 2002 will be the year companies decide that they can no longer put up with ridiculous prices on appliances and services. For the past 5 years the big network firms have taken advantage of high tech companies by selling appliances that required two and three times the cost to install or integrate. The time has come for simple, low cost solutions that empower the end user to manage themselves.

Q2: What do you think the trends will be within your own technology category?
A2: The trend will be towards companies buying affordable dedicated appliances. BlueCat Networks is in the business of building and selling simple, affordable and secure dedicated network appliances. Our first product is a 1U appliance called the ADONIS Server ¾ a simple DNS Appliance. A shameless plug, but with the Adonis, DNS can now be configured in a matter of minutes ¾ that's high value.

Q3: How can I solve my DNS nightmares?
A3: DNS is known as the "black hole" of the net. A minor spacing or pointer error can take valuable hours away from critical resources. Our simple dedicated DNS Server (www.bluecatnetworks.com) can data check your files and configure your DNS in a matter of minutes. The powerful Java-based client application empowers you to manage thousands of zones and can import existing configuration files. Undo/redo and intelligent wizards are just a few of the many features.

Raghav “Reggie” Mehta
Sales Engineer
Network Technologies, Inc.
(800) 742-8324/(330) 562-7070
www.nti1.com
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Q2: What do you think the trends will be within your own technology category?
A2: One trend is the growing popularity of USB-enhanced computers and peripherals. PCs, Macs and Sun computers are all available with USB connectors now; it's becoming the standard. NTI provides the KVM products network managers need, with the flexibility to control both legacy and USB computers and peripherals.

Q3: How is your company meeting the challenge of integrating USB computers and peripherals into existing legacy applications?
A: We have a unique, patent-pending USB KVM technology that allows users to autoboot all attached USB computers simultaneously. Other "USB KVM" switches require individual, sequential boot-up. Our newest switch, the KEEMUX-USBV-n-U, goes a step further and utilizes a USB keyboard and mouse to control USB computers attached to the switch.

Roy Zisapel
President & CEO
Radware, Inc.
(888) 234-5763/(201) 512-9771
www.radware.com
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Q2: What do you think the trends will be within your own technology category?
A2: Internet Traffic Management will play an even greater role in the coming year, as there will be a need for better integration between network and applications. This need will result in integrating/providing more intelligent services for the network (examples can be illustrated with bandwidth management, application security and global content management). When these services are provided, the traffic management switch becomes the center of the network. In parallel, in order to support those services, strong hardware platforms will be developed.

Q3: What differentiates Radware in the industry?
A3: Radware is the only company completely focused on the gap between the network and application. We develop a traffic management switch that provides multiple network and application services such as load balancing, application security, health monitoring and bandwidth management to support mission critical applications. Our strong partnerships, as well as global presence has helped all types of companies assure certainty in their networks. And, the integration of our products is fast and simple providing an immediate ROI upon implementation.

Jim Davis
President
Silas Technologies
(877) 897-2579
www.silasreveille.com
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Q2: What do you think the trends will be within your own technology category?
A2: How to do more with less. How to handle increasingly complex and diverse business environments, without killing the company's bottom line. With this focus on revenue, the trend will be to find ways of minimizing operating expenses without sacrificing service.

Q3: What effects will these trends have on the corporation?
A3:As technology driven business applications focus more on business value, it will become more and more essential that operations and IT speak a common language. The whole business process will need to be streamlined and more efficient. Management, finance, operations, and IT will need a commonly understood tool that gives them the information they need to work more closely together as a unified team rather than separate groups.

James Cameron
President & CEO
WebEvent, Inc.
(978) 975-3344
www.WebEvent.com
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Q2: What do you think the trends will be within your own technology category?
A2: The calendaring and scheduling market will evolve to enable people to effortlessly schedule time with one another, even across organizational boundaries. Embedded "smart agents" will simplify time management and new technologies will transparently combine multiple sources of event information into a single, cohesive scheduling solution.

Q3: Why do groupware solutions so often fail?
A3: Collaboration tools only succeed if adopted. After the lengthy and costly implementation of a traditional choice such as MS Outlook or Lotus Notes, it is common to find that user's needs aren't adequately addressed. At a fraction of the cost, WebEvent provides comparable features and full source code access for a custom-fit solution, which ultimately results in greater usage and enterprise-wide acceptance.

Andy Meyer
Vice President, Marketing
Websense, Inc.
(800) 723-1166
www.websense.com
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Q2: What do you think the trends will be within your own technology category?
A2: As new technologies evolve and more employees gain access to the Internet, employee Internet management (EIM) solutions will become increasingly essential for companies to install. EIM software will become a must-have to alleviate unnecessary network bandwidth and productivity loss, storage costs and exposure to legal liabilities.

Q3: What is the future of employee Internet management (EIM) technology?
A3: Over time EIM technology will evolve from its current Internet access management platform to include additional quality of service (QoS) and knowledge management applications. Companies will benefit from organizing internal resources to address specific business tasks and managing Internet traffic to prevent bandwidth-intensive content from impacting all Internet traffic.