(EMAILWIRE.COM, December 22, 2000 ) BOSTON, MA —— Summit Strategies, Inc., a research firm that provides technology companies with insight on emerging markets, technologies and strategies, today announced the publication of The Summit Seven, an annual report of the top forces poised to reshape the e-business landscape. The Summit Seven is designed to inform and advise IT industry executives of the critical business issues that will impact their businesses and market.

Summit Strategies has been successfully identifying and helping IT industry executives capitalize on fast-paced industry shifts since 1984. Some of the more important trends Summit has identified recently include the brick-and-mortar companies beating back dotcoms' incursion into their markets and the ways in which the Internet would forever alter sales and distribution channels.

Highlights from this year's Summit Strategies Summit Seven report include:

Internet Infrastructure: The second-generation Internet will take shape, as engineers begin overhauling the original with new generations of infrastructure hardware and software for high performance, capacity on demand, and ironclad guarantees.

Virtual Workplaces: Standalone portals, hosted applications, and marketplaces will be eclipsed by virtual workplaces: environments that integrate hosted applications, internal and industry content and complementary services that are tailored to the needs of the individual.

Wireless: Wireless carriers will finally recognize that business—rather than consumer—applications will drive the North American wireless Internet adoption, which will dramatically alter the way they approach the market.
"The companies that will survive are those that approach change as a competitive opportunity, rather than a threat to their business," said Tom Kucharvy, president of Summit Strategies. "Summit Strategies helps identify those opportunities and advises executives on how to capitalize on them."

About Summit Strategies, Inc.

Summit Strategies is a leading provider of research and information about the emerging markets, technologies and strategies that will change the rules of competition in the technology industry. Through in-depth analyses of business-to-business Internet-applications hosting, wireless/mobile technologies, portals and e-marketplaces, Summit Strategies helps its clients define, manage and capitalize on the most significant opportunities created by the new digital economy. Established in 1984, Summit Strategies' research reports, one-on-one interactions with senior analysts, and consulting services help senior executives and strategic planners anticipate, define and capitalize on fast-paced industry shifts.

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Katie Lybrook
Summit Strategies, Inc.
(617) 531-8122
klybrook@summitstrat.com

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