That maturation is reflected in our selection of the Most Important Products of 1999. This year's crop of products has finally made the Internet not the focus of, but the great enabler of, business processes. Nearly every one of our 10 Most Important Products of 1999 fits squarely in the transformation of business into E-business. In addition to the large-scale integration offered by the online procurement services, customer-relationship management, supply-chain automation, and Web-personalization suites whose impact on crunching business cycles is obvious, there are products that represent several key aspects of computing infrastructure. Naturally, almost all these products rely on the Internet and its associated open standards to tie all the pieces together.

While Windows 2000 and the "directory wars" are likely to dominate the early part of 2000, it's the increasing integration that 1999's Most Important Products portend that will likely do the heavy lifting well into the new year. Indeed, as evidenced by these products, the tools and competitive forces exist at the end of 1999 to transform every business into an E-business. Those companies that fail to make the transition may largely cease to be players.

The Products Of The Year
	Broadvision One-To-One
	CacheFlow's Web-Caching System
	Red Hat Linux 6.1
	Novell Directory Services B
	Oracle
	Network-Based Procurement Services
	i2 Technologies' Rhythm
	Siebel 99
	Four-Way Enterprise Servers
	Extensible Markup Language
	Hardware Renaissance
Most Important Products of the '90s