Windows Datacenter Server Independent Software Vendors (ISVs)

Aspect Communications is the world's largest company focused exclusively on contact center solutions. Aspect's products were some of the first to be certified as Microsoft .NET Connected Web services and certified on the Windows Server 2003 platform prior to its launch. Aspect is trusted by more than 75 percent of the Fortune 50, and more than 3 million customer agents rely on Aspect's mission-critical solutions daily. Aspect's leadership is based on 18 years of expertise with more than 8,000 successful implementations worldwide.

BMC Software, Inc. is a leader in enterprise management with a focuse on assuring business availability for its customers by helping them improve services, reduce costs, and increase value to their business. BMC Software solutions span enterprise systems, applications, and databases. Founded in 1980, BMC Software has offices worldwide and is a member of the S & P 500, with fiscal year 2002 revenues of approximately $1.3 billion.

Computer Associates (CA) delivers the software that manages e-business. Their solutions address today's most critical e-business process, information, and infrastructure management challenges, enabling customers and partners to gain and sustain competitive advantages. CA's field-proven and critically acclaimed e-business software portfolio is focused on six areas: enterprise management, security, storage, application life cycle management, data management and application development, and portal and business intelligence. More than two decades of continuous innovation and unwavering commitment to quality make CA the technology partner of choice for the next generation of e-business.

Citrix Systems, Inc. is a global leader in virtual workplace software and services that provide access to applications, information, processes and people on any device, over any network, anywhere, anytime. Thousands of companies worldwide use Citrix Solutions for the Virtual Workplace to give users more mobility, give IT organizations more flexibility, and reduce the cost of computing. Headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Citrix is traded on the Nasdaq stock market (CTXS) and is part of the Standard and Poor's 500 Index.

The CommVault Windows Centric Data Management solution provides an easy, fast way to back up, restore, archive, migrate, and consolidate data centers. Certified for Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, and Windows 2000 DataCenter Server, this extensively tested, Microsoft System Architecture (MSA)-recommended solution offers Windows–centric heterogenous management, with advanced support for Microsoft technologies, including Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server™, Active Directory®, and Great Plains.

Crystal Decisions is a leading global provider of business intelligence software and services with more than 15 million licenses shipped. Since 1984, Crystal Decisions has powered winning organizations with one of the fastest ways for employees, partners, and customers to access the information they need to make the best decisions and ultimately reduce costs and increase productivity. The Crystal brand is among the most trusted names in enterprise reporting, and more than 360 ISVs have standardized on Crystal Decisions solutions. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Crystal Decisions has more than 30 offices worldwide.

Fincentric Corporation is a leading provider of core banking, wealth management, and specialized customer relationship management software to the global financial services industry. The Fincentric Wealthview family of products provides service representatives of financial institutions with a snapshot of a customer's financial holdings, giving a consistent view across all delivery channels, Wealthview's software enables the selling of additional products and services that will help customers better meet their financial goals. Ultimately, this approach leads to improved customer relationships, retention, and increased revenue.

The IBM DB2 database software is a multimedia, Web-ready relational database management system delivering leading capabilities in manageability, reliability, performance, and scalability. DB2 is the database of choice for customers and partners developing and deploying critical solutions. Today, more than 60 million DB2 users from 400,000 companies worldwide rely on IBM data management technology. With 17 certifications on Windows Server 2003, including Datacenter, as well as .NET Connected certification, Premier membership in the Visual Studio .NET Integration Program, and Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for Software Products status, DB2 delivers the platform integration you need to successfully manage all your information assets.

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager is a storage software solution that addresses the challenges of complex storage management across a distributed environment. It helps to manage a broad range of data storage, recovery, and availability functions across a computing infrastructure and across multiple platforms. From the enterprise file servers in a data center, to the storage peripherals throughout an organization, to the laptops in a remote offices, Tivoli Storage Manager can help ensure data availability for all users, wherever they are.

Lakeside Software is an innovational leader in the development of management software for Microsoft-based server and workstation environments. SysTrack software is easily installed and deployed and scales to support centralized management of thousands of systems. Organizations around the world that need to control hardware and software assets; track users, application, and Web usage; monitor, detect and diagnose system and application problems; measure resource requirements; and control software licensing turn to Lakeside Software to improve their return on investment.

Microsoft BizTalk Server® lowers the cost of implementing integration solutions by reducing the complexity of enterprise application integration. BizTalk Server 2002 provides organizations with the server, tools, adapters, and vertical accelerators needed to integrate and automate their business. And now more companies than ever can realize their full potential with BizTalk Server 2002 Partner Edition.

Commerce Server 2002 is the Microsoft Windows Server System™ platform for rapidly building next-generation online businesses. Built on agile Microsoft .NET technology, Commerce Server 2002 can extend a site's functionality, drive profitability, and enhance the user experience globally. Commerce Server 2002 provides powerful features for user profiling, personalization, catalog management, order processing, globalization, and advanced online business analytics.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 works with Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft Office Outlook® 2003 to deliver e-mail-based collaboration services to businesses with security, reliability, and ease of access. Exchange Server 2003 is part of the Windows Server System, the Microsoft server infrastructure that simplifies the development, deployment, and operation of agile business solutions.

Windows Services for UNIX (SFU) 3.0 provides a full range of cross-platform services that help organizations seamlessly integrate Windows into existing UNIX environments. And now that the Interix subsystem technology is built in, SFU 3.0 provides platform interoperability and application migration components in one fully integrated and supported product from Microsoft.

SQL Server 2005 is the complete database and analysis offering for rapidly delivering the next generation of scalable e-commerce, line-of-business, and data warehousing solutions. It dramatically reduces the time required to bring these applications to market while offering the scalability needed for the most demanding environments.

NetIQ is a leading provider of e-business infrastructure management and intelligence solutions for all the components of an organization's infrastructure—from back-end servers, networks, and directories to front-end Web servers and applications.

Established in 1991, NSI Software is a leading developer of patented, award-winning data replication technologies and services. NSI Software products, including Double-Take, GeoCluster, and Balance, enable companies to recover quickly and easily from disasters and continue to provide business-critical information for demanding customer environments. Privately funded, NSI has strategic technical and marketing relationships with industry leaders including Microsoft, IBM, Dell, HP, and many others. NSI Software works with its OEM partners and reseller channel to deliver comprehensive solutions and support to business users. For more information on NSI Software, visit the Web site, call 1-888-674-9495, or e-mail info@nsisoftware.com.

Onyx is a global supplier of customer relationship management (CRM) enterprise applications that power a company's entire business world, connecting sales, marketing, and service organizations with customers, prospects, and partners. Through an innovative mix of Internet technology, strategic services, and customer commitment, Onyx helps companies create the seamless, branded customer experiences they need to forge a competitive advantage and build real business value. Onyx customers include American Express, Broadwing, Commerce One, Credit Suisse, Dreyfus, FirstWorld Communications, Portland Trail Blazers, Prudential Investments, and Sierra Health Services. Get more information at 888-ASK-ONYX or info@onyx.com.

SAS provides software and services that enable customers to transform data from all areas of their business into intelligence. SAS solutions help organizations make better, more informed decisions and maximize customer, supplier, and organizational relationships. Solutions from SAS, the world's largest privately held software company, are used at more than 37,000 business, government, and university sites around the world. Customers include 98 of the top 100 companies on the Fortune 500, and 90 percent of the Fortune 500 overall. For 25 years, SAS has been giving our customers The Power to Know™.

Founded in 1972, SAP is the recognized leader in providing collaborative e-business solutions for all types of industries and for every major market. Headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, SAP is the world's largest inter-enterprise software company and the world's third-largest independent software supplier overall. SAP has leveraged its extensive experience to deliver mySAP.com, the definitive e-business platform for today's economy. A collaborative e-business platform, mySAP.com allows employees, customers, and business partners to work together successfully—anywhere, anytime.

A Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, TNT Software develops solutions for Windows operating systems. TNT products help automate and simplify the administration of Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows NT workstations and servers. Headquartered in downtown Vancouver, Washington, TNT Software has specialized in developing state-of-the-art administration tools for Windows operating systems since 1996. Their mission is to provide customers with reliable, cost-effective solutions. TNT has a unique understanding of the importance of solid tools to support administration of today's complex networks. Their technology is used by thousands of customers worldwide. TNT strives to provide the highest quality of customer support in the industry.

Trend Micro is a global leader in antivirus and content security software and services. Our solutions protect the flow of information on PCs, file servers, and at Internet gateways, providing a complete, centrally-controlled virus wall for enterprise networks. Citing its strategy and vision, the Gartner Group has hailed Trend Micro as a visionary malicious code management supplier for four consecutive years. In just over a decade, Trend Micro, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, has grown into a global organization, with more than 1800 employees in 23 countries. The company stock is traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. As of April 1, 2002, the company's market capitalization exceeded US$3.3 billion.

Using rapid-response, Web-based technology, Universal Responses offers highly reliable, automated information-gathering tools at SelfSurveys.com to easily collect, analyze, and compare vital business data from any desktop computer, laptop, PDA, or PC Companion mobile device in six languages. It can provide a full range of intelligence-gathering support services that allow product, project, policy, measurement, and process improvement teams to make better business decisions within existing budgets and much faster than permitted using traditional research techniques. Principal applications areas are marketing, product management, human resources, procurement, and partner ventures.

With 5,700 employees in 36 countries and revenue of $1.5 billion in 2001, VERITAS Software ranks among the top ten software companies in the world. VERITAS is the world's leading storage software company, providing data protection, storage management, high availability, and disaster recovery software to 86 percent of the Fortune 500. VERITAS Software's corporate headquarters is located at 350 Ellis Street, Mountain View, CA, 94043, tel: 650-527-8000, fax: 650-527-8050, e-mail: vx-sales@veritas.com.