Audience Chooses the Most Innovative Products of First Quarter 1999 From Selected Demos; Companies Vie for Top Honors At Giga Information Group Conference.CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 18, 1998--After a stringent selection process, an array of small and large IT providers presented timed product demonstrations before a high-level audience of CIOs, senior level end-users and investors at Giga Information Group's Emerging Technology Scene conference. Each of the product demonstrations was followed by a Q & A session hosted by a Giga analyst and user panels. These panels included senior-level IT executives such as Scott Dinsdale, BMG BMG Bundesministerium für Gesundheit (Germand: Federal Ministry for Health) BMG Be My Girl BMG Blue Man Group BMG Bertelsmann Music Group BMG Be My Guest BMG Browning Machine Gun BMG Bulk Metallic Glass Entertainment; Jim Griffin, OneHouse; Angela Kapp, Estee Lauder Companies; Josef Mandelbaum, American Greetings American Greetings Corporation, Inc. NYSE: AM is the world's largest publicly-traded greeting card company. It is based in Cleveland, Ohio and sells paper greeting cards, electronic greeting cards, party products (such as wrapping papers and decorations), and electronic Corp.; Sukan Makmuri, Bank of America
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 ) is the largest commercial bank in the United States in terms of deposits, and the largest company of its kind in the world. ; and Richard Taggert, Bristol Myers Squibb; among others. The panels evaluated each product's level of innovation, business application potential, and overall quality. The audience then voted on the most innovative products in five technology segments or TechnoVistas: desktop, Web, server, network, and a catch-all category called "The Boomers' Kids", yielding the following results: TechnoVista I - The Amazing a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. Future of the Desktop: Product voted overall winner in category - Adaptive Server Anywhere - UltraLite from Sybase Product voted most innovative in category - Embassy from Wave Systems Corp. Product voted as having the best business application potential - Adaptive Server Anywhere - UltraLite from Sybase Product voted highest quality demonstration - (tie) - Adaptive Server Anywhere - UltraLite from Sybase and Embassy from Wave Systems Corp. TechnoVista II - Behind the Scenes at the Web Site: Product voted overall winner in category - TeamSite - PageWarehouse from Interwoven in·ter·weave v. in·ter·wove , in·ter·wo·ven , inter·weav·ing, inter·weaves v.tr. 1. To weave together. 2. To blend together; intermix. v.intr. Software Product voted most innovative in category - TeamSite - PageWarehouse from Interwoven Software Product voted as having the best business application potential - TeamSite - PageWarehouse from Interwoven Software Product voted highest quality demonstration - Sapphire from Bluestone bluestone, common name for the blue, crystalline heptahydrate of cupric sulfate called chalcanthite, a minor ore of copper. It also refers to a fine-grained, light to dark colored blue-gray sandstone. TechnoVista III - Serving Up Servers Product voted overall winner in category - TimesTen Main-Memory Data Manager from TimesTen Performance Software Product voted most innovative in category - Galaxy from Compaq Product voted as having the best business application potential - TimesTen Main-Memory Data Manager from TimesTen Performance Software Product voted highest quality demonstration - Galaxy from Compaq TechnoVista IV - The Network of the Well-Connected Enterprise Product voted overall winner in category - ExtraNet Center from Aventail Product voted most innovative in category - ExtraNet Center from Aventail Product voted as having the best business application potential - ExtraNet Center from Aventail Product voted highest quality demonstration - ExtraNet Center from Aventail TechnoVista V - The Boomers' Kids-What's Coming Next? Product voted overall winner in category - Streaming Media See streaming audio, streaming video and digital media hub. Things from ThingWorld.com Product voted most innovative in category - Streaming Media Things from ThingWorld.com Product voted as having the best business application potential - In3D from Visible Decisions Product voted highest quality demonstration - Streaming Media Things from ThingWorld.com About Giga Information Group Giga Information Group (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :GIGX), founded by industry icon Gideon I. Gartner, delivers knowledge and strategic technology and management advice to IT decision makers via innovative research processes and a leading-edge Web interface. Giga's dominant research focus is on helping companies integrate their businesses with the Internet; it also covers trends in the computing, telecommunications and related industries. The world's fastest-growing authority on IT, Giga began providing its services in April 1996, and today its global client base exceeds 900 organizations comprising over 13,000 individual users, including IT vendors, IT users and institutional investors. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts This article is about the city of Cambridge in Massachusetts. For the English university town, see Cambridge, England. For other places, see Cambridge (disambiguation). 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Ingles (NYSE: IMKTA) is a regional supermarket chain based in Asheville, North Carolina, where Robert "Bob" Ingle opened the first store in Asheville, NC in . The company's Web site can be accessed at http://www.gigaweb.com. Giga Information Group is a trademark of Giga Information Group Inc. |
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