IT RADIO NETWORK NOW FEATURING INTERVIEWS WITH TOP EXECS FROM NETWORK APPLIANCE AND COGNOS

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – September 19th, 2000 -- IT Radio Network, the voice behind eBusiness, is featuring in-depth interviews with Tom Mendoza, President of Network Appliance (Nasdaq: WWFE) and Ben Plummer, VP of Customer Operations with Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN).

During the interview, Network Appliance President Tom Mendoza, discussed the company's caching solutions, the growing storage market and the company's future.

According to Mendoza, the storage market is growing at an extremely rapid pace. "The entire storage segment is growing at 30%," said Mendoza. "Network attached storage, which is the segment we address, is growing at about a 70% annual rate and we currently have about 61% market share in an over $900 million market."

In the interview with Cognos’ Ben Plummer, he discussed the customer Web experience and the company's PowerPlay application.

According to Plummer, the customer Web experience is just emerging. "I believe that they are going to find out that it’s not going to be a letdown in any form or fashion," said Plummer. "I believe they are going to find tremendous value in the Web experience as they begin to look outside their own organizations."

These interviews and others are available free online in RealAudio and text at http://www.itradionetwork.com.

To access Tom Mendoza’s interview directly, visit http://www.itradionetwork.com/scripts/mendozat.cfm

To access Ben Plummer’s interview directly, visit http://www.itradionetwork.com/scripts/plummerb.cfm

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IT Radio Network is an online audio business magazine that features a variety of tech trends, company spotlights and one-on-one interviews with the people reshaping the world of technology. The site is produced by Sky Radio, which produces radio programs for online magazines, a network of corporate Web sites, several major airline carriers and CEOLive.com.

Interviews also currently available on IT Radio Network include WWF Entertainment (Nasdaq: WWFE) FreeMarkets (Nasdaq: FMKT), Handspring (Nasdaq: HAND), WebEx (Nasdaq: WEBX), Peoplesoft (Nasdaq: PSFT), Corio (Nasdaq: CRIO), Xpedior.com (Nasdaq: XPDR), 24/7 Media (Nasdaq: TFSM) and Author Faith Popcorn.

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