XChange Tech Builder Shares the Buzz About the Industry

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MANHASSET, N.Y.
May 27, 2003

Over 100 Solution Providers attended XChange Tech Builder, May 6 in San Diego. Monty Cornell, Technology Solution Group's Research Director, rolled out a powerful keynote presentation on the top-line results of the ground-breaking Custom Systems Ecosystem Study. World Premiers by Intel and AMD contained excitement about new: products and services, market opportunities for White Books and partnerships with leading brands. T.C. Doyle, Sr. Executive Editor, VARBusiness, led the Opening General Session, a panel discussion about intensifying and expanding sales in the current economy with Omid Rahmat, General Manager of Operations, Tom's Hardware.

Throughout this event, CMP's Technology Solutions Group revitalized, encouraged and continued relationships in print, editorial and face-to-face with vendors, to reconfirm their channel places. To view this success, please watch our event video at: http://www.cmpxchange.com/sections/video.asp

Opportunities were plentiful throughout, with new product line introductions in both the Solutions Pavilion and XChange Appointments. Surveys revealed the 'best of the best' for the XChange Xcellence Awards Winners and Nominees. View them at: http://www.cmpxchange.com/media/pdf/xtb_XX_Award_winners.pdf

About CMP Media LLC

CMP Media LLC ( www.cmp.com ) is a leading integrated media company providing essential information and marketing services to the entire technology spectrum-the builders, sellers and users of technology worldwide. Capitalizing on its editorial strength, CMP is positioned to offer marketer's comprehensive, integrated media solutions tailored to meet individual needs. Its diverse products and services include newspapers, magazines, Internet products, research, direct marketing services, education, training, trade shows, conferences and custom publishing.

About the Technology Solutions Group

The Technology Solutions Group of CMP Media LLC is the publisher of CRN and VARBusiness, host of ChannelWEB, the gated Internet community for Solutions Providers, organizer of XChange Conferences, and founders of the Institute for Partner Education & Development. With 20 years of experience and institutional knowledge about the distribution channels for IT products, the Technology Solutions Group is recognized as the premier source of information on the channel, including news and analysis, research, Internet tools, face-to-face events, training and education.

About XChange Conferences

XChange Conferences ( www.cmpxchange.com ) is a series of industry-wide forums that provide vendors and pre-qualified solution providers with unique opportunities to meet face-to-face, establish new business partnerships and gain strategic insight through content delivered by: CRN and VARBusiness.

For further information, please contact: Nancy Hammervik, Managing Director of XChange Conferences, +1-516-562-7679, nhammerv@cmp.com .

SOURCE: CMP Media LLC

CONTACT: Nancy Hammervik, Managing Director of XChange Conferences,
+1-516-562-7679, nhammerv@cmp.com

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