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Fiber Optic players... 'The Powerize 50' for Week of March 27: Fiber Optics White Hot WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29 2000 8:04 AM EST RESTON, Va., Mar 29, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Fiber optics, the key to the Internet's future, steals the spotlight in the latest Powerize 50. Sparked by insatiable interest in technologies for high-speed networks, half of this week's top ten searched companies are fiber optics or optical networking players. The weekly list of companies being watched by individual investors and business researchers at www.powerize.com is derived by tracking the search requests of more than 400,000 Powerize.com members. Technology companies have regularly dominated the Powerize 50, with different niches taking turns in the spotlight. This week it's fiber optics and networking players: JDS Uniphase (3), Ciena (6), Corning (7), Lucent Technologies (8), ADC (9) and Optical Networks (10), Sycamore Networks (12), Qwest (14) and Digital Lightwave (15) all crack the top 20. Meanwhile, E-commerce solutions specialist Ariba holds the top spot for the third straight week. Microsoft, a lock in the top position until two weeks ago, slipped two more spots to fifth. Also of note, Belgian speech technology solutions company Lernout & Hauspie (13) announced Tuesday it will acquire privately-held Dragon Systems (4). The Powerize 50 for Week of March 27, 2000 Rank Company Last Wk 1 Ariba 1 2 Cisco Systems 10 3 JDS Uniphase - 4 Dragon Systems 2 5 Microsoft 3 6 Ciena - 7 Corning - 8 Lucent Technologies 5 9 ADC Telecommunications - 10 Optical Networks - 11 Corvis - 12 Sycamore Networks - 13 Lernout & Hauspie 8 14 Qwest 9 15 Digital Lightwave - 16 Akamai Technologies - 17 Phone.com - 18 Covad Communications Group 19 Gilat 17 20 EMC 7 21 Commerce One 16 22 Solectron 14 23 Ortel - 24 i2 Technologies 11 25 Coca-Cola 13 26 Cheap Tickets 12 27 DSL.net - 28 SBC Communications - 29 Mirror Image - 30 Bell Atlantic 30 31 Puma 4 32 Phone.com 6 33 Nuance Communications - 34 Copper Mountain Networks - 35 Baan 15 36 American Home Products - 37 NetSpeak 20 38 Bank of America - 39 Exodus Communications - 40 Digital Island - 41 Monsanto - 42 IBM 21 43 Celestica - 44 Veritas Software 28 45 Farms.com - 46 Boeing 29 47 CacheFlow - 48 SanDisk 23 49 Bank One - 50 America Online 42 About Powerize.com With content from more than 10,000 trusted information sources worldwide, Powerize.com is a leading source for business and investment research on the Web. Through a patent-pending business model, Powerize.com offers its members free, unlimited access to content from more than 2,400 of those sources, including brand-name newspapers, magazines, trade journals, newswires and premium content that has never before been available for free in one place on the Internet. Founded in January 1997, Powerize.com is headquartered in Linthicum, Maryland. Its leading content partners include Bell & Howell Information & Learning, BNA Inc., COMTEX News Network, EBSCO Information, Gale Group, Market Guide, Phillips Publishing, Primark, and Zacks Investment Research, among others. Copyright (C) 2000 Business Wire. All rights reserved. Distributed via COMTEX. -0- CONTACT: Powerize.com, Reston Michael Gallagher, Senior Vice President Phone: 703.438.3500 ext.8111 Fax: 703.438.3550 mgallagher@powerize.com or Press Contact: Manning Selvage & Lee, New York Elliott Frieder Phone: 212.213.7245 Fax: 212.213.7101 efrieder@mslpr.com WEB PAGE: businesswire.com GEOGRAPHY: VIRGINIA MARYLAND INDUSTRY CODE: BANKING E-COMMERCE INTERNET PUBLISHING TELECOMMUNICATIONS Today's News On The Net - Business Wire's full file on the Internet with Hyperlinks to your home page.