IT Radio Network Features Interviews With Neon Systems CEO And The President Of Network Appliance

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – July 26, 2000 -- IT Radio Network, the voice behind eBusiness, is featuring in-depth interviews with the executives of two of Business Week’s Top 100 Growth Companies, Joe Backer, CEO of Neon Systems (Nasdaq: NESY) and Tom Mendoza, President of Network Appliance. (Nasdaq: NTAP).

During his interview, Backer discussed the company’s recent earnings announcement and the reasons why they were lower than originally expected. "The total shortfall was in our international business. What we believe is that customers’ buying patterns have changed in the enterprise space," said Backer. "It has become somewhat more difficult to close business in a timely manner. We’ve probably made the switch pretty effectively in the U.S., but somewhat neglected our international brother from a management perspective."

In the Mendoza interview, the Network Appliance President discussed the company’s market share and the growth of the storage market. "Well, the entire storage segment is growing at 30%. Of course, it’s a very large number so 30% is a huge growth factor, but network attach storage, which is a segment that we address, which means many people putting different types of data, being able to address it from one platform," said Mendoza. "If you have PCs or workstations from any vendor, you can put your storage all in one place and address it. That segment’s called network attached storage. It’s growing at about a 70% annual rate and we currently have about a 61% market share of a $900 Million market."

These entire interviews are available free online in RealAudio (Nasdaq: RNWK) and text.

To hear the interview with Joe Backer, CEO of Neon Systmes, please visit http://www.itradionetwork.com/scripts/backer.cfm.

To hear the interview with Thomas Mendoza, President of Network Appliance, please visit http://www.itradionetwork.com/scripts/mendoza.cfm.

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Interviews also currently available on IT Radio Network include Hewlett Packard (NYSE: HWP), Serena Software (Nasdaq: SRNA) CriticalPath (Nasdaq: CPTH), Storage Technology (NYSE: STK), Somera Communications, (Nasdaq: SMRA), Egghead.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: EGGS), International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM) and E.Piphany (Nasdaq: EPNY).


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