Hardware Partners

Adaptec, Inc. provides end-to-end storage solutions that reliably move, manage and protect critical data and digital content. Adaptec provides software and hardware solutions for storage connectivity and data protection, storage networking and networked storage subsystems to leading OEM and distribution channel partners. Adaptec solutions are in use by enterprises, ISPs, medium and small businesses and consumers worldwide. Adaptec is an S&P Small Cap 600 Index member.

Böwe Bell+Howell, Wheeling, Illinois, is focused on making the most reliable, productive and easy-to-use document scanners in the industry. Böwe Bell+Howell scanners are sold through the two-step channel of distributors and value-added resellers. In addition, Böwe Bell+Howell is the only scanner manufacturer in the industry that is willing and able to customize its scanners to meet the unique requirements of its customers.

Canon U.S.A., Inc., headquartered in Lake Success, New York, is a leader in professional business and consumer imaging equipment and information systems. Their extensive product line and digital solutions enable businesses and consumers worldwide to capture, store and distribute information. Canon products include color and black-and-white copiers, printers, image filing systems, facsimile machines, cameras and lenses, camcorders, semiconductor, broadcast and optical equipment, flatbed scanners, and other specialized industrial products. Canon is listed by Fortune as one of the "Most Admired Companies in America," and is ranked #35 on the BusinessWeek list of "Top 100 Brands."

Kodak is the leader in helping people take, share, print and view images - for memories, for information, for business and for entertainment. With sales of $13.5 billion in 2004, the company is committed to a digitally-oriented growth strategy focused on four businesses, including Graphic Communications - providing customers with a range of solutions for prepress, traditional and digital printing, and document scanning and multi-vendor IT services - and Display and Components - supplying OEMs with imaging sensors as well as intellectual property and materials for the organic light-emitting diode and LCD display industries.

EMC Corporation is the world leader in products, services and solutions for information storage and management that help organizations extract the maximum value from their information, at the lowest total cost, across every point in the information lifecycle. EMC is the information storage standard for every major computing platform and, through their solutions, EMC serves as caretaker for more than two-thirds of the world's most essential information.

Fujitsu is a leading provider of customer-focused IT and communications solutions for the global marketplace. Pace-setting device technologies, highly reliable computing and communications platforms, and a worldwide corps of systems and services experts uniquely position Fujitsu to deliver comprehensive solutions that open up infinite possibilities for its customers' success. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu, Ltd. reported consolidated revenues of 4.7 trillion yen (USD $44.5 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2005.

Kofax, a division of DICOM Group plc, is the world's leading provider of information capture software, according to research by Harvey Spencer Associates. Kofax products enable the automation of business processes by collecting paper documents, forms and e-documents from throughout organizations, transforming them into retrievable information, and delivering it all into line-of-business applications, databases and archives. The company's Ascent platform is the most popular information capture application worldwide, and its VRS (VirtualReScan) is the de facto standard for scanning productivity. Kofax products are widely used in finance, government, insurance, healthcare, and a broad range of companies and agencies that must capture critical business information from paper and electronic documents and forms.

Panasonic Corporation of North America is the principal North American subsidiary of Matsushita Electric Industrial Company, Ltd. of Japan, and the hub of its U.S. marketing, sales, service and R&D operations.

Founded in 1984 and headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom, Plasmon is a pioneer in optical storage technology and has emerged as a leader in the archival storage industry. Plasmon develops and manufactures UDO (Ultra Density Optical) professional 5.25-inch optical drives and media, specifically designed to meet the secure archival storage demands of corporations and government agencies. Plasmon employs more than 400 dedicated professionals worldwide. Plasmon's archival storage and RAID solutions are sold by a global network of distribution, reseller, OEM and system integration partners and are maintained through a comprehensive product support infrastructure.