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[Gene Gaines]

>From Network World

Best products: User picks
IBM and Cisco remain perennial favorites while Microsoft lags
in popularity among readers who participated in our third
annual Best Products survey.

By Julie Bort
Network World, 11/12/01

"When it comes to brand names in the network industry, Cisco and
IBM glow as golden as a monarch's crown. In comparison,
Microsoft would best be described as gray; frequently the market
share king but never the user's favorite.

That's one of the findings of our third annual Best Products
survey, in which we ask Network World readers to tell us which
products they liked best in selected categories. This year, we
queried on 10 categories ranging from commonly used management
software to cutting-edge security products.

Participants voted IBM the winner in each of the four
categories in which it was listed. Cisco, too, won all three of
its categories. Microsoft won none of its three, even when it
owned the biggest market share among participants - a
circumstance unique to Microsoft.

..."

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Gene Gaines
gene.gaines@gainesgroup.com
Sterling, Virginia