The Power issue - Network World

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With the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigations and Congressional inquiries into corporate accounting practices, we've witnessed the ultimate corruption of power in the networking industry this year. But much more importantly, we've also been privy to powerful new technology visions, strong product plans and smart business moves. Here, in our annual Power Issue, we embrace and herald all the powerful people, companies, technologies and ideas floating around in this networked world.

Beth Schultz, editor, Network World Signature Series Bschultz@nww.com

Our guide to the most powerful network vendors

•	The 10 most powerful companies
•	Readers rate the power of 20 major vendors in our annual Powerometer poll. Read more

Our guide to the most powerful people in the network industry

•	The 50 most powerful people
•	Profiles of five opportunists with their arms around industry power: AT&T President Betsy Bernard, IBM's Linux honcho Daniel Frye, Dell's network pied piper Kim Goodman, Fidelity Investment System's personage Don Haile, Symantec CEO John Thompson.
•	Readers rate the power of 20 major vendor CEOs in our annual Powerometer poll. Read more

A guide to four contentious issues playing out in the network industry

•	Major server vendors clash over self-managing server networks
•	Two opposing specifications for Web services workflow standards battle it out
•	Incumbent carriers resist users' push for Gigabit Ethernet services
•	SSL VPNs wrestle some of the market away from IPSec Read more

A look into emerging technologies that promise to empower the enterprise

•	Automated server configuration
•	PDAs
•	Intrusion prevention Read more

Our guide to techniques for boosting your corporate power

•	Get respect for your security efforts Read more
•	Keep IT from becoming the corporate scapegoat Read more

More insight into the powerful people and events of the network industry

•	The Power line: Our annual timeline of the industry's most electrifying events. Read more
•	The Bracket Game: Your vote will determine the most powerful person in the network industry. Read more

The Power Issue is one of six bimonthly issues providing insights, opinions and information on the biggest trends shaping the networked world. Look for the new Extended Enterprise Issue, a guide to the latest technologies and challenges of building an extended corporate infrastructure, coming Feb. 17, 2003.