According to the latest research published by Netcraft, Datapipe is the most reliable hosting company site during second half of 2004. The agency monitored the leading hosting company sites counting the day's downtime during the period. The data shows that seventeen providers went through the entire six months with no outages at all. Six hosting companies went through the period with 0.2% or less of requests failing from our seven measurement points.

Another research, launched by IDC has analyzed the largest European solution services players. The criteria were their opportunity alignment and ability to gain share in the Western European SCM, CRM, and overall business solution services market. In three studies IDC presents 2004 Leadership Grids. Additionally presented are the 2003 market shares.

The document shows a leadership for IBM Global Services, closely followed by Accenture and with Capgemini in third place. "All vendors need to innovate and develop solutions that cover the specific needs of the particular market segments that they target," said Erik Bruin, research manager, European Services.

The last month of the year was rich on successful agreement announcements. Equinix, Inc. (www.equinix.com), a provider of network-neutral data centers and Internet exchange services, today announced that it has signed a long-term lease for an additional 103,000 square feet of data center space in San Jose close to the company's two other Internet Business Exchange™ (IBX®) centers in the region.

The same was seen on the search engine market with Yahoo! Inc. has evaluated the market and once again named GOT as the exclusive provider of email marketing tools to Yahoo! customers.

"The partnership between Yahoo! and GOT has delivered a tremendous amount of value to small businesses, enabling them to cost-effectively generate revenue, build brand and strengthen customer relationships," said Eric Melka, President and CEO of GOT Corporation.

The technology development was presented by IBM (www.ibm.com) releasing storage virtualization software designed with expanded support to virtualize and manage the complete line of currently available EMC disk storage systems.

The new changes in the prices of the Internet services were the exiting events in the end of the year. Aplus.Net (www.aplus.net), a leading web site hosting and development firm for small and medium-sized businesses (SMB), announced that it will be selling domain names with the .info extension for 99 cents each, with no quantity limit.

Expanding their long-term strategic global alliance, HP (www.hp.com) and Cisco Systems, Inc. (www.cisco.com) announced delivering of co-branded support services - via a single point of contact.

Security sphere of the industry was presented by Microsoft Corp. (www.microsoft.com) announcements that it has acquired GIANT Company Software Inc. The company is provider of top-rated anti-spyware and Internet security products. From Microsoft stated they will use intellectual property and technology assets from the acquisition to provide Microsoft® Windows® customers with new tools to help protect them from the threat of spyware and other deceptive software.

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