Tell your purchasing department to get ready. It's time to make up yournetwork product shopping list again. This year, we've expanded our productcategories from 40 to 45. Actually, we dropped 20 categories, and added25 new ones since last year. These changes speak strongly of the evolutionin network computing.
Our judgments are not based on product marketing pitches or vendor demos.Our awards come from our staff and our contributing editors, and they'rebased on product testing we've conducted throughout the year.
We've also chosen
two products of the year: one hardware and one software.Although the process culminated in a tremendous debate, we came to a nearperfect consensus:
Cisco's 7500 router
series and
Netscape's Navigator 2.0
.
We can't say enough about Netscape Navigator 2.0. In fact, it managed towin two Well- Connected awards. Most people will agree that this browserhas created such a stir, that hardly a day goes by that Netscape and itscreators aren't publicly revered.
Meanwhile, Cisco quietly continues its dominance in the high-end routermarket. The 7500 is used everywhere, from the Internet backbone to corporatebackbones. Perhaps more dramatically, Cisco has become the strategic networkingchoice. Corporate America depends on Cisco to run its companies, much likeit has relied on IBM and Digital Equipment Corp. in the past. Today's newmantra: Nobody gets fi
red for buying Cisco.
So, give your purchasers a sedative, get out
that checkbook and browse ourtop picks.
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