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The 10 Most Important Products of the Decade

October 2, 2000
By Art Wittmann

Products

Look at that. The editors of Network Computing picked a product that's no longer sold--one that was never sold--as their product of the decade. Ridiculous? Well, yes, if you measure the importance of a product by the number of shrink-wrapped boxes sold. We don't.

Our 10 "Most Important Products of the Decade" are those we believe shaped the networking industry, period. Some, like Mosaic, earned their place in history by introducing entirely new concepts. Others, like Kalpana's EtherSwitch, drastically reduced the price of technology, enabling mass deployment. And still others, like Novell's NetWare, brought reliability and ease of management to a product category that previously had neither. The top products of the past 10 years clearly demonstrated how best to deliver on a widely needed technology. That's impact.

Here is our list:

# 1: NCSA's MOSAIC

# 2: Novell NetWare 3.x

# 3: Cisco Systems 7500 Router

# 4: Microsoft Windows NT

# 5: Kalpana EtherSwitch

# 6: Apache Web Server

# 7: Network Associates Sniffer

# 8: Cisco Systems 2500 Router

# 9: Check Point FireWall-1

# 10: Lotus Notes