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Internet sector dominates growth list

Business in Vancouver October 28-November 3, 2003; issue 731

Six of Vancouver's 25 fastest-growing technology companies cater to the online market sector

Dot-com survivors dominate Business In Vancouver's list of fastest-growing tech companies, with two of the top three companies, and six overall providing services to Internet users.

Web-site developer Blast Radius and Internet Service Provider Radiant Communications Corp. (RCX: TSX-Venture) ranked second and third respectively on BIV's list after fast-growing engine manufacturer Westport Innovations. Other firms catering to Internet users that placed on BIV's list of B.C.'s fastest growing 25 technology companies include ActiveState Corp., Net Nation Communications, Info Touch Technologies Corp. and Technovision Systems Inc.

British Columbia Technology Industries Association president George Hunter said Blast Radius and Radiant Communications are proving that some firms navigated the "period of irrational exuberance" in 1999 and 2000 and emerged with a strong business plan.

BIV's list measured growth from 1998 revenue to 2002 revenue, so only firms that had revenue in 1998 were eligible to make the list.

Hunter said that kind of measurement highlights the firms that capitalized on first-mover advantage.

"It was the great land rush where people who were riding the lead wagons and staked out their turf are doing very well," he said.

Hunter added that hard times put many Internet sector firms out of business. The result is that "as the apparent competition has fallen away, some firms in the Internet sector have been strengthened."

Hunter believes the sector's hard times are in the past. He recently returned from a trip to California's Silicon Valley where he heard rumours that some major firms that cater to Internet users are considering IPOs.

"That would really be a show of strength," he said.

Another sign of strength is the number of Internet-sector firms on BIV's fast growing technology companies list that have been involved in mergers since the close of 2002.

U.K.-based Sophos Plc paid US$23 million to swallow Vancouver'-based spam-filter software maker ActiveState Corp. in September. Vancouver's domain name seller and ISP NetNation Communications Inc. merged with Chicago-based Hostway Corp. in August. And Vancouver-based ISP Technovision Systems Inc. merged with Victoria's PC Net International Inc. in August to become Uniserve Communications Corporation (UCC:TSX-Venture).