Reality Research and Consulting Partners with CMP'S InformationWeek Research

InformationWeek, the leading IT media brand, in partnership with Reality Research & Consulting, a leading IT and channel research and consulting firm, announced today availability of Reality reports on InformationWeek's IT Research Hub (informationweekresearch.com/hub), an e-commerce site for third-party research reports that examine issues and trends ranging from IT spending shifts to the growth of wireless technology adoption. Reality Research offers market solutions to executives of IT firms searching for tools to shape and meet their strategic end-customer and channel IT goals. The Reality reports available on The IT Research Hub include in-depth, quantitative research, combined with compelling and effective consultative strategic planning for the emerging products, markets and trends of today's fast paced IT industry.

The IT Research Hub provides one-stop shopping for Information Technology research and allows users to obtain InformationWeek's leading market trend research, as well as third-party IT research from some of the most respected technology firms known today.

"We are pleased to be able to offer our readers and research customers third-party research from such well-respected research firms like Reality Research." said Rusty Weston, online and research editor of InformationWeek. "Now there is one online destination where business and IT professionals can go to gain access to research from some of the top IT sources, providing not only broader access but time savings."

Please visit http://www.informationweekresearch.com/hub for further details.

About InformationWeek

InformationWeek helps the people who buy, build and manage information technology in business. It is published weekly and has a circulation of 440,000. Informationweek.com has 150,000 unique visitors per month. Technology is changing the nature of what it means to be in business. It's collapsing supply chains and fueling the growth of new companies and new markets. Through breaking news, in-depth features, and research, InformationWeek is the source for business innovation powered by technology. We like to think of our magazine as an intelligent browser -- one that helps readers navigate through important news and trends and guides them to additional resources online or at live events. Our content is organized around the way business and technology managers make decisions. Weekly sections include: Follow the Money, Tech Analyzer, Business applications, Infrastructure, and Customer Economy. In addition to the weekly magazine, InformationWeek provides a platform of information solutions including http://www.informationweek.com/, InformationWeek Research, InformationWeek Events, which includes the InformationWeek Conference for business and technology executives and InformationWeek Daily, an e-mail news service. In May 2000, InformationWeek was named one of the nation's Top 10 B2B Media Powerhouses by Advertising Age's B2B

About CMP Media Inc.

CMP Media Inc. is the leading high-tech media company providing essential information and marketing services to the entire technology spectrum-the builders, sellers and users of technology worldwide. With its portfolio of newspapers, magazines, custom publishing, Internet products, research, consulting and conferences, CMP is uniquely positioned to offer marketers comprehensive integrated solutions tailored to meet their individual needs. Online editions of the company's print publications, along with products and services created exclusively for the Internet, can be found on CMPnet at http://www.cmpnet.com/.

About Reality Research & Consulting

Reality Research & Consulting delivers strategic and tactical market intelligence and analysis on the IT market and channels. Its client list includes major technology companies, such as Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, 3Com and Microsoft. Reality is an independent business unit of the CMP Media Inc. It is based in Jericho, NY, with offices located in Waltham, MA and Redwood Shores, CA. For a complete listing and description of Reality's products and services, visit http://www.realityresearch.com/.

  Contact:
  Jackie Kolek
  PepperCom
  212-931-6166
  jkolek@peppercom.com

  Dominic Albanese
  PepperCom
  212-931-6128
  dalbanese@peppercom.com

  Richard March
  Reality Research & Consulting
  516-733-8645
  rmarch@cmp.com

  Elizabeth Gallagher
  Reality Research & Consulting
  516-733-8698
  egallagh@cmp.com

SOURCE: CMP Media, Inc.

Contact: Jackie Kolek, 212-931-6166, jkolek@peppercom.com, Dominic
Albanese, 212-931-6128, dalbanese@peppercom.com, both of PepperCom, for CMP
Media; Richard March, 516-733-8645, rmarch@cmp.com, or Elizabeth Gallagher,
516-733-869, egallagh@cmp.com, both of Reality Research & Consulting

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http://www.informationweekresearch.com/

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