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2006 Top 10: On the Hot Seat: Page 2 of 5

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    No. 8: CA

    CA makes its debut on our hot seat list, but not because it had a particularly troubled year. The network software firm has had serious problems for a long time. But with its acquisition of XOsoft, iLumin, and MDY Group International over the past 14 months, CA has convinced us it's serious about storage. It now has CDP, replication, email archiving, records management, and compliance products -- putting a lot of storage functionality in the hands of a company with a poor track record. Perhaps now that former chairman Sanjay Kumar has been convicted and sentenced for accounting shenanigans, the company can get some real traction in the coming year.

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    No. 7: Packeteer

    Packeteer was stung by disappointing revenue from WAFS products it got from its $78 million acquisition of Tacit. Meanwhile, rival Riverbed continues to rack up customers and remains the darling of investors after a successful IPO. Expect significant executive changes at Packeteer in 2007. You can also expect new faces in the old Tacit team now that former Tacit president Chuck Foley has moved on, and Packeteer marketing VP David Puglia was sent packing, according to a vendor executive who asked not to be named.

    Puglia disagreed with the implication he'd been let go by his former employer. "I resigned on good terms with Packeteer in December of 2006. I started at Tablus in January of 2007. Packeteer's Q4 revenue results exceeded expectations under my marketing programs," he wrote in a March 2007 email to Byte and Switch.