Award-Winning MessageQ.Com Spawns IT Quadrant, Rolls Out Network of Three New IT Web Sites; Focused Content e-merges for eBusiness, EAI, and Middleware.

Business/Technology Editors

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 20, 1999

The highly successful MessageQ.com web site transformed itself today into three sites that cover information technology issues in the areas that have the greatest business impact, and where the most money is spent. Behind this revolutionary development is the new corporate entity ITQuadrant, Inc., formerly NASG (North American Systems Group).

Leslie Yeamans, founder, president and publisher of the networked sites, is the Internet visionary directing the entire venture. Yeamans introduced MessageQ.Com two years ago, and the site quickly established itself as the leader for dynamic and in-depth information about the all-important IT areas of middleware and messaging. Not only was the site comprehensive, creative, thought-provoking, and original from an editorial perspective, it was also that rare Internet entity

-- an instant financial success.

Major industry sponsors, such as IBM, Candle, BMC Software, and Neon, quickly saw value, and made yearlong commitments to MessageQ.Com by displaying their logos on the MessageQ.Com home page.

In its forums, interviews, news stories, and analysis features, MessageQ.com began to address issues in related areas, such as enterprise application integration [EAI] and eBusiness. Recognizing this development and the level of interest it generated, Yeamans made the decision to spread the content and tighten the focus, so that each area and its community will be addressed with the accuracy and thoroughness of MessageQ.com.

The resulting sites are:

www.MessageQ.com for messaging and middleware;

www.EAIQuadrant.com for enterprise application integration; and

www.eBIZQuadrant.com for eBusiness.

"Changes in the business world," said Yeamans, "are really fueling our corporate directions. Information Technology used to be something that took place in the background, a hidden facilitator. With the emergence of the Internet, and the use of computer systems to a previously unimagined degree, IT has been thrust from the background to the forefront. Today, IT is the business."

Central Site Plus Cross References

The sites that make up the network operate as one entity for those visitors with cross-interests. In-depth indicators send readers from a subject that has simply been referenced by a story to an entire site dedicated to that particular area of interest.

The rich information resources include IT Quadrant's own editorial, interactive forums, and opportunities to comment on yet-unpublished manuscripts from major technical publishers such as Macmillan USA. Additionally, exclusive interviews create online communities and bring together IT professionals with business decision-makers who recognize the role of IT in the "e-merging" economy.

Besides their own editorial content, vendor white papers, and advertising, each of the sites also provides information from analyst firms and other experts, available for purchase in the Q-Mart.

Explaining the ITQuadrant name, Yeamans pointed out that the Internet has turned us all into explorers. "Today's IT users need help finding business critical information. A quadrant was one of the first navigational devices ever used, and IT Quadrant helps bring visitors to the information they seek, as well as helping them discover new, unknown resources. Never before has so much information been available to so many all at once. Without leaving their desk, Internet travelers can reach the four corners of the earth on any subject. That's really where the quadrant idea came from, both the destination and the tools to get there."

With the paint on the new name barely dry, spurred on by the quick success of MessageQ.com, the ITQuadrant concept already has investors knocking on the door. "Although we have been profitable from the day we launched, and aren't on the venture hunt, the interest from the financial community reassures us that IT Quadrant is on the right course."

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