IDG's InfoWorld Special Comdex Issue Examines thePeople, Products, and Services of E-Business.

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov.

IDG's InfoWorld, the IT newsweekly that defines technology for business, will publish a special issue on e-business with news and reviews on the people, products, and services behind successful e-businesses.

Included in the Nov. 15 special issue is an interview with Comdex keynote speaker and Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, as well as interviews with several CTOs -- a job classification quickly emerging as the one responsible for overall e-business strategy and direction.

The special issue also includes Test Center reviews of e-business integration technologies and the first comparison to evaluate four network Quality of Service (QoS) tools, including two new products from Cisco and HP.

"This issue of InfoWorld looks at the people who are building e-businesses, how they are doing it, and what they are using," said Michael Vizard, editor in chief of InfoWorld.

"By combining both the business and technology challenges, InfoWorld offers a more complete view of today's enterprise climate -- from how emerging technologies like QoS are challenging the way enterprise companies manage their network to how new roles like that of the CTO are changing the way companies manage business on the Web." -0-

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About InfoWorld

Headquartered in San Mateo, in the heart of Silicon Valley, InfoWorld Media Group publishes InfoWorld and InfoWorld.com. InfoWorld, the IT newsweekly that defines technology for business, focuses on editorial coverage of key technologies, products and trends to assist IT professionals in leveraging technology for buti-platform, enterprise test bed -- the InfoWor InfoWorld Media Group also publishes InfoWorlter (the InfoWorld Scoop) and a complete archive of InfoWorld's print edition.

InfoWorld Media Group is a wholly-owned independent business unit of IDG, the world's leading IT media, research and exposition company. IDG publishes more than 285 computer magazines and newspapers and 500 book titles and offers online users the largest network of technology-specific sites around the world through IDG.net (http://www.idg.net), which comprises more than 200 targeted Web sites in 52 countries.

IDG is also a leading producer of 110 computer-related expositions worldwide, anm.