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Moonwalk: Page 4 of 5

Harvey hasn't released pricing info, except to say Moonwalk customers pay a yearly subscription depending on the number of users or servers.

Harvey was working with Dialog four years ago when he stumbled upon what he saw as a good idea for a company. "We kept falling over an opportunity," he says. "Big companies kept asking, 'You have anything to manage Netware files?' "

He started his own company, got funding from Dialog, and set out to develop software to solve the NetWare problem -- but not only the NetWare problem. "We had the luxury of sitting down with a blank piece of paper," he says.

Harvey says the company's name has nothing to do with making data dance like a certain one-gloved entertainer

"At first, we called the company the Data Management Company, and the product was Data Migrator," he says. "That was really boring. Moonwalk just floated out of the sky. It's new technology, the first step. I didn't even think of Michael Jackson."