15th Annual Goldman Sachs Technology Investment Symposium Highlights The Drivers of Tech Growth.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers LA QUINTA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 12, 2001
Top Technology Analysts and Industry Leaders Meet to Discuss
the Industry Outlook
Focus on the Importance of E-Business and Information Technology
Goldman Sachs The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., or simply Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) is one of the world's largest global investment banks. Goldman Sachs was founded in 1869, and is headquartered in the Lower Manhattan area of New York City at 85 Broad Street. opens its 15th annual Technology Investment Symposium with an outlook on the prospects for e-business applications, hardware and software infrastructure, as well as the broader tech sector. Over the next four days, Goldman Sachs technology analysts, 184 industry-leading companies, and institutional and private investors will discuss the macroeconomic mac·ro·ec·o·nom·ics n. (used with a sing. verb) The study of the overall aspects and workings of a national economy, such as income, output, and the interrelationship among diverse economic sectors. outlook for technology and trends across several sectors including Internet infrastructure, security software, storage, semiconductors and networking. Keynote speakers include Thomas Siebel Thomas M. Siebel (born November 20, 1952, in Chicago, Illinois) is the chairman of First Virtual Group, a diversified holding company with interests in commercial real estate, agribusiness, global investment management, and philanthropy. of Siebel Systems Siebel is a brand name of Oracle Corporation. Siebel Systems, Inc., founded by Thomas Siebel in 1993, was principally engaged in the design, development, marketing and support of CRM applications. , Carl Yankowski Carl J. Yankowski (born 1949) is a United States business executive specializing in the marketing of technology and consumer products. He has held senior positions at Sony Electronics, Reebok, and Palm, Inc.. of Palm, Andy Bryant of Intel, and Gerald Levin of AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. Time Warner. Role of Information Technology Over the past decade Information Technology (IT) applications have expanded far beyond back-office automation. Today, computing plays a critical role in creating industry-defining and commercially successful online business solutions, as well as collaborative capabilities, which were not possible before the Internet. This ongoing expansion is reflected in the number and range of companies attending the Goldman Sachs' Technology Investment Symposium, one of the industry's most important forums. Top management teams will offer their insights on the year ahead and highlight the increasing priority of IT infrastructure and e-commerce solutions for companies across all industries. "Y2K See Y2K problem and Y2K compliant. Y2K - Year 2000 spending has been redirected," said Rick Sherlund, head of Goldman Sachs' Technology Research Team and a number one ranked Institutional Investor Institutional Investor A non-bank person or organization that trades securities in large enough share quantities or dollar amounts that they qualify for preferential treatment and lower commissions. Analyst. "We surveyed market leaders in 15 industry sectors, and findings indicate traditional corporations are moving into e-business in increasing numbers and that Internet technology has become mainstream for their corporate IT departments. These trends bode well for e-business applications and other infrastructure companies." Market Leaders Offer Financial Outlook The Symposium will feature an extraordinary roster of keynote speakers, as well as presentations from top established companies and emerging leaders - ranging from startups to Fortune 100s - that define their industry sectors. Verisign, Entrust, Internet Security ''This article or section is being rewritten at Internet security is the process of protecting data and privacy of devices connected to internet from information robbery, hacking, malware infection and unwanted software. Systems and Check Point Software are among the companies to represent the burgeoning security industry; e-business and Internet infrastructure companies including i2 Technologies, Siebel Systems, Oracle, Mercury Interactive For another company with a similar name, see Mercury Computer Systems. HP Mercury (formerly Mercury Interactive) is a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard that is a market leader in automated software quality assurance and offers products in other areas such as diagnostics, , CommerceOne, and Ariba will also offer presentations. Well-known consumer Internet companies, such as AOL Time Warner and Yahoo!, and e-business service providers including EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. ,CSC, Sapient sa·pi·ent adj. Having great wisdom and discernment. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin sapi and DiamondCluster will also be featured. Hosted by the Goldman Sachs Technology Research Group, these companies will present their financial outlook for 2001 and highlight the critical issues in their sectors. In addition, the Technology Research Group will provide their insights into where the industry is going and why, including their expectations that industry trends and business demand should benefit storage companies, such as EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. , Brocade and Network Appliance (1) A specialized device for use on a network. For example, Web servers, cache servers and file servers can be implemented as general-purpose computers with the appropriate software or as network appliances, which are computers dedicated to a single function and cannot do anything , and infrastructure companies, such as TIBCO TIBCO The Information Bus Company , BEA Systems BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS) is one of the major companies developing enterprise infrastructure software. BEA makes middleware, products that help software run on top of databases. , Rational and Veritas. Highlights of the Symposium: Monday, 12 February - Financial Outlook Presentations (46 companies) Keynote speakers: Thomas Siebel, Siebel Systems; Mike Ruettgers, EMC; Carl Yankowski, Palm Tuesday, 13 February - Financial Outlook Presentations (50 companies) Investment Banking Panel Research Technology Analysts Presentation: Results of Spending Survey Keynote speaker: Ray Lane of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Wednesday, 14 February - Financial Outlook Presentations (51 companies) Keynote speakers: Rick Belluzzo, Microsoft; Andy Bryant, Intel Thursday, 15 February - Financial Outlook Presentations (32 companies) Keynote speakers: Ed Zander zan·der n. pl. zander or zan·ders A common European pikeperch (Stizostedion lucioperca) valued as a food fish. [German, from Low German Sander , Sun Microsystems and Gerald Levin, AOL Time Warner For a complete schedule of events and list of keynote speakers, participants and presentations, see www.tis2001.gs.com.
724 Solutions Cirrus Logic Intel
Act Manufacturing C-MAC Industries Internet Security
Actuate CNET Systems
ADI Cognos Jabil
Advanced Energy Commerce One Kana KLA-Tencor
Advanced Micro Compaq Kleiner Perkins
Circuits Computer Sciences Lam Research
Aether Concord Lattice
Affiliated Computer Conexant Lexmark
Agilent Technologies Convergys Linear
Agency.com Corio LSI Logic
Akamai Credence Systems Manugistics
Altera Critical Path Marvell
Amazon CSG Systems Matrix One
Amdocs Dassault Maxim
America OnLine Descartes Mercury Interactive
Anadigics DiamondCluster Micromouse
Andersen Consulting DoubleClick Micron
Applied Materials eBay Microsoft
Applied Micro EDS Mcirtune
Circuits APW, Ltd. EMC MIPS Technology
Ariba Entrust Mobius
Art Technology Equifax Modis Professional
ASE Exodus National
ASM Lithography First Data Corp Semiconductor
Aspen Tech Flextronics Network Appliance
ATMI Inc Forrester Research Niku
AudioCodes FreeMarkets Novell
Autodesk General Novellus Systems
Axcelis Technologies Semiconductor Nuance
BEA Systems Global Payment OpenWave
Blue Martini Great Plains Oracle
BMC Software Hewlett-Packard Orbotech
Broadbase Homestore Organic
Broadcom Hyperion Palm
Broadvision i2 Technologies Parthus
Brocade IBM Paychex
Cadence ICGE Pegasystems
Calico Imany Peoplesoft
CGI Group Inet Technology Philips
Chartered Semi Informatica Semiconductors
Checkfree Inforte Photronics
Checkpoint Infospace Pivotal
Inktomi
Plexus Corp.
PMC-Sierra
Portal Software
Predictive Systems
PSDI
Rational
RealNetworks
Red Hat
Resonate
Saba
Sabre
Sandisk
SAP
Sapient
SCI Systems
Siebel Systems
Smartforce
Solectron Corp
StorageNetworks
Sun Microsystems
Synopsys
Tenfold
Teradyne
TerraLycos
Texas Instruments
Tibco
TranSwitch
TSMC
Unisys
Universal Access
Verisign
Veritas
Vertical Net
Vignette
Viant
Visual Networks
Vitesse
webMethods
Xilinx
Yahoo!
About Goldman Sachs: Goldman Sachs is a leading global investment banking and securities firm, providing a full range of investing, advisory and financing services worldwide to a substantial and diversified client base, which includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and high net worth individuals. Founded in 1869, it is one of the oldest and largest investment banking firms. The Firm is headquartered in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and maintains offices in London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong and other major financial centers around the world. The High Technology Group is headquartered in Menlo Park, California Menlo Park is a city in San Mateo County, California in the United States of America. It is located at latitude 37°29' North, longitude 122°9' East. Menlo Park had 30,785 inhabitants as of the 2000 U.S. Census. with 390 dedicated high technology professionals in New York, Boston, London, Frankfurt, Hong Kong and Tokyo. |
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