Buff L. Jones

Crossworlds Software, Inc. develops, manufactures, markets and implements e-business infrastructure software. The company's infrastructure software enables the integration and automation of business processes among the Internet customers. The products include pre-built connectivity solutions for common technology environments, e-business and enterprise applications and other integrated solutions, which allow the customers to customize their e-business requirements. The company has operations in the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Germany. The customers of the company include Applied Materials, Inc, Delphi Automotive Systems, Ingersoll-Rand Company, Nortel Networks Corporation, Siemens AG, Solar Turbines, Inc. and other. The joint marketing partners of the company are Clarify, Compaq, Deloitte Consulting, Ernst & Young, IBM, MetaSolv, Oracle, SAP, Siebel and PricewaterhouseCoopers. The company is headquartered in Burlingame, California, USA.

Merant Plc designs, develops, and markets software products and services for enterprise application development. Its solutions permit organizations to manage the application development process. The company was founded in 1976 and is located in Newbury, UK.

TradeBeam Holdings, Inc. develops software based business solutions. The firm provides solutions that streamline global trading processes for enterprises and their partners. It offers consulting and implementation services. Its clients include Dell, Delphi, GlobalLink Logistics, Siemens, Neiman Marcus, and Brocade Communications Systems. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Macrovision Corp., provides software and entertainment technology services. It provides services to content owners, software and hardware vendors. It was founded in the year 1983. The company headquaters is located at California.

Compuware Corp. engages in the provision of software solutions and professional services that optimize productivity and reduce costs across the application life cycle. It focuses on the development of mainframe software tools for the development and operations. The firm's products include topaz, topaz workbench, topaz for total test, hiperstation, xpediter, strobe, thruput manager, abend-aid, and application audit. The company was founded by Peter Karmanos, Jr., Thomas Thewes, and Allen B. Cutting in 1973 and is headquartered in Detroit, MI.

Candle Corp. provides e-business solutions. It also provides solutions to manage and optimize business-critical infrastructures, systems, service levels and other information technology assets. Candle Corp. was founded by Aubrey G. Chernick in 1976 and is headquartered in El Segundo, CA.