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Alter Point: This small company tackles configuration, a big task. Policy management isn't in the cards, but you will get hassle-free backup and tracking of infrastructure configuration changes.

Aprisma: No longer tied to an infrastructure vendor, Aprisma is master of its future, free to focus on its Spectrum network management product outside the shadow of financial impropriety cast by the SEC's investigation of Enterasys.

BMC Software: BMC is taking root cause to a new level using existing technology and some statistical secret sauce. The company is positioned to leapfrog into the network and systems management lead.

Empirix and Keynote Systems: Qualitative management is the watchword for the performance monitoring space, and as usual, Keynote and Emprix lead the way for services and performance monitoring products, respectively. Adding qualitative measures to quantitative measures is the next big step.

LANDesk Software: At last out from under Intel's wing, LANDesk is looking to make major changes in the profile and functionality of its asset-management suite. We expect big advances in products and features throughout 2003.

Marimba: Marimba has added handhelds and servers to the list of devices whose software changes it can manage. This is much more than installing software; it's controlling and accounting for assets, items that have hard-dollar impact.

Smarts: Gathering lots of data isn't that big a deal anymore, but doing something with the data is. We expect Smarts to expand on its data collection and correlation engine, adding modules to measure application servers like IBM's MQSeries.

SolarWinds: SolarWinds seems reluctant to make too much noise, yet we expect great things from this small but very able network management vendor.