Quadralay Corporation
[ www.quadralay.com ]
Category: Content Creation & Digital Publishing
Founded: 1992
Employees: 50
Chief Officer: Tony McDow, President
Key Product(s): WebWorks ePublisher Pro, ePublisher Express, ePublisher AutoMap

Questel Orbit
[ www.questel.orbit.com ]
Category: Fee-Based Info Service
Founded: 1972
Employees: 130
Chief Officer: Charles Besson, CEO
Key Product(s): QPAT, QWEB, Imagination, PlusPat/FamPat, PatentExaminer, Patent Delivery Service, SearchPat, DigiPat, MMS, CaTaMaran Plus, WorldMark Plus, WorldSuite, E-Pat - E-Mark

Reed Elsevier Group, PLC
[ www.reedelsevier.com ]
Category: Fee-Based Info Service
Founded: 1993 (merger)
Employees: 36,000
Chief Officer: Sir Crispin Davis, CEO
Key Product(s): Scientific Bibliographic Databases, Scirus, Scopus, LexisNexis, Engineering Village2, Reed Business (Publisher of B2B Magazines and Directories)

Research In Motion
[ www.rim.net ]
Category: Mobile Content
Founded: 1984
Employees: 4,000
Chief Officers: Jim Balsillie, Chairman & Co-CEO; Mike Lazaridis, President & Co-CEO
Key Product(s): BlackBerry Wireless Platform, Handheld Products, Business Phones, BlackBerry Enterprise Server, BlackBerry Connect

Reuters Group, PLC
[ www.reuters.com ]
Category: Fee-Based Info Service
Founded: 1851
Employees: 15,300
Chief Officer: Tom Glocer, CEO
Key Product(s): News and Business Content for Financial Markets, Proprietary Online Distribution, Syndication

SDL International
[ www.sdl.com ]
Category: Content Management
Founded: 1992
Employees: 1,500+
Chief Officer: Mark Lancaster, Chairman & CEO
Key Product(s): Global Information Management Products: SDL Knowledge-based Translation System, SDL Translation Management System, SDL AuthorAssistant, SDL Enterprise Translation Server, SDL MultiTerm, SDL Trados, SDL Trados Team Server, SDL PhraseFinder, SDL Synergy, SDL Teamworks, SDL Trados TM Server

Siderean Software, Inc.
[ www.siderean.com ]
Category: Search Engines & Technologies
Founded: 2001
Employees: 25
Chief Officer: Michael Schmitt, President & CEO
Key Product(s): Seamark Navigator, Metadata Assembly Processing Platform (MAPP), Analytics

Six Apart, Ltd.
[ www.sixapart.com ]
Category: Blogging
Founded: 2002
Employees: 150
Chief Officer: Barak Berkowitz, CEO & Chairman of Board of Directors
Key Product(s): Moveable Type, TypePad, LiveJournal, Vox

Sling Media, Inc.
[ www.slingmedia.com ]
Category: Mobile Content
Founded: 2004
Employees: 100
Chief Officer: Blake Krikorian, Co-Founder & CEO
Key Product(s): Slingbox, SlingLink, SlingPlayer Mobile

Socialtext, Inc.
[ www.socialtext.com ]
Category: Collaboration
Founded: 2002
Employees: 30
Chief Officer: Ross Mayfield, CEO
Key Product(s): Socialtext Enterprise, Professional, Personal, Open Source, SocialCalc

Springer Science+Business Media
[ www.springer.com ]
Category: Fee-Based Info Service
Founded: 1842 (as Springer-Verlag)
Employees: 5,000
Chief Officer: Derk Haank, CEO
Key Product(s): SpringerLink, Springer eBook Collection, Springer Online Archives Collection, Springer Open Choice.

Stellent, Inc.
[ www.stellent.com ]
Category: Content Management
Founded: 1990
Employees: 530
Chief Officer: Robert Olson, Chairman, President & CEO
Key Product(s): Stellent Universal Content Management; Stellent Universal Records Management; Stellent Governance, Risk and Compliance; Stellent Imaging and Business Process Management; Outside In - A Stellent Product

Swets Information Service
[ www.swets.com ]
Category: Fee-Based Info Service
Founded: 1901
Employees: 850
Chief Officer: Arie Jongejan, CEO
Key Product(s): SwetsWise Subscriptions, Online Content, Title Bank, Linker, Searcher, ALPSP Learned Journals Collection, MPS Scholarly Stats, Taylor and Francis eBooks, The Springer eBooks Collection, ‘Gateway to China', SUSHI, The Journal Supply Chain Efficiency Improvement (JSCEI) Pilot

Technorati, Inc.
[ www.technorati.com ]
Category: Blogging
Founded: 2003
Employees: 35
Chief Officer: David L. Sifry, Founder & CEO
Key Product(s): Technorati

Teragram Corporation
[ www.teragram.com ]
Category: Classification & Taxonomy
Founded: 1997
Employees: 50
Chief Officer: Yves Schabes, Ph.D., President
Key Product(s): Taxonomy Management, Automatic Categorization, Entity Extraction, Metadata Generation, Email Alerts, Direct Answers, Linguistic Suite

The Thomson Corporation
[ www.thomson.com ]
Category: Fee-Based Info Service
Founded: 1989
Employees: 40,500
Chief Officer: Richard J. Harrington, President & CEO
Key Product(s): Thomson Scientific & Healthcare (ISI Web of Knowledge, Dialog, DataStar, Derwent, Micromedex, Physician's Desk Reference), Legal & Regulatory (Westlaw, Sweet & Maxwell, RIA, FindLaw, Thomson Business Intelligence), Financial (Thomson ONE, First Call, Datastream Advance, TradeWeb), Learning (Thomson Gale, Thomson NETg, Thomson Course Technology, Thomson Delmar Learning)

Traction Software, Inc.
[ www.tractionsoftware.com ]
Category: Blogging
Founded: 1996
Employees: 8
Chief Officer: Greg Lloyd, President
Key Product(s): Traction TeamPage, Communicator, Instant Publisher, Feed Reader

Tridion BV
[ www.tridion.com ]
Category: Content Management
Founded: 1999
Employees: 130
Chief Officer: Pieter Varkevisser, CEO
Key Product(s): Tridion R5, Marketing Communication Solutions, Webforms

TYPO3 Association
[ www.typo3.com; www.typo3.org ]
Category: Content Management
Founded: 1997
Employees: 211
Chief Officer: Kasper Skårhøj, Chairman
Key Product(s): TYPO3 Content Management System

Vasont Systems
[ www.vasont.com ]
Category: Content Management
Founded: 1997
Employees: 70
Chief Officer: Richard B. Schiding, CEO
Key Product(s): Vasont Content Management System, Vasont ASP, Vasont SG Extension to Integrate with XML, Vasont Universal Integrator (VUI)

Vignette Corporation
[ www.vignette.com ]
Category: Intranets & Portals
Founded: 1995
Employees: 760
Chief Officer: Mike Aviles, President & CEO
Key Product(s): Vignette V7 Platform

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Vivisimo, Inc.
[ www.vivisimo.com ]
Category: Search Engines & Technologies
Founded: 2000
Employees: 50
Chief Officer: Raul Valdes-Perez, President & CEO
Key Product(s): Vivisimo Velocity 5 (including the Clustering Engine, Content Integrator & Search Engine Modules, Clusty.com)

Wikia, Inc.
[ www.wikia.com ]
Category: Collaboration
Founded: 2004
Employees: 16
Chief Officers: Gil Penchina, CEO; Jimmy Wales & Angela Beesley, Co-Founders
Key Product(s): Community-Focused Wiki Hosting and Development

WordPress
[ www.wordpress.com ]
Category: Blogging
Founded: 2005
Employees: 11
Chief Officers: Toni Schneider, CEO; Matt Mullenweg, Founder & President
Key Product(s): Wordpress, Automatic

Workshare, Inc.
[ www.workshare.com ]
Category: Content Security
Founded: 1998
Employees: 135
Chief Officer: Joe Fantuzzi, President & CEO
Key Product(s): Workshare Protect Enterprise Suite, Professional, DeltaView, TRACE!

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