To: Carl R.  who wrote (573 ) 11/9/2000 3:15:59 PM From: Flipper12     Read Replies (1)  | Respond to    of 603  carl dmc's competitiion Quest Software Inc. (QSFT, NASDAQ) is a Irvine, California based company that delivers information and application availability solutions for e-business. It targets three significant business areas: development and deployment of applications and databases; performance and availability of those applications and databases; and information delivery solutions for the distribution of information across the Internet. Quest’s products deliver an enterprise, report-based information management solution that indexes, prints and archives report data from multiple applications for distribution over the Internet. Informatica Corporation (INFA, NASDAQ) is a company that is based in Palo Alto, California. It is a provider of e-business analytic solutions, including enterprise data-integration software platform and analytic applications that help companies evaluate their performance across the entire e-business value chain. Clients include companies in industries ranging from financial services, manufacturing and retail to software and utilities. Neon Systems, Inc. (NESY, NASDAQ) is a Texas based company with sales and support located in 25 countries throughout the world. It is a provider of e-business integration, security and subsystem management software. Neon’s primary product family, Shadow, enables the deployment of new applications and the extension of legacy applications across a variety of computing environments, including the Internet and client/server and mainframe systems. New Era of Networks (NEON, NASDAQ) is based in Colorado and is a supplier of Internet infrastructure software and services. The company helps automate e-business by providing products and services that integrate Internet-facing applications with core operational systems for goods and services providers. Its products enable e-markets by routing messages and transforming information. New Era of Networks also provide design, development and implementation services through its professional services organization. IDION Technology Holdings (IDI, JSE) is an information-based company based in Cape Town, South Africa. The company has four subsidiaries with IDION Software being a competitor for DataMirror. It delivers leading edge software products and professional services to the IBM AS/400 market on a worldwidebasis. Its core business is the development, distribution and support of computer software with products for continuous availability, resource management and systems management in the partitioning/clustering space. UNIX, Windows NT and Mainframe Markets — A bias exists in these markets towards database vendors, such as Microsoft Corp. (MSFT, NASDAQ), who include some data transformation and replication functionality in their products. However, these vendors have little incentive to transform or replicate data to other vendors’ databases. These vendors also take a batch approach whereas DataMirror’s Transformation Server processes the data in real time. Thus, DataMirror’s key differentiator is its change data capture engine.