Military
We have a bunch of readers in the U.S. military as well. Readers are from all branches of the armed services, as well as the Defense Security Service, the U.S. Army Research Lab, the Naval Ocean Systems Center, the National Computer Security Center, the Defense Logistics Agency, and various Pentagon commands.

Consulting and defense contractors
Crossing into civilian territory, there are also many readers at both consulting firms and defense contractors. Some of you work at defense contractors including Lockheed-Martin Corporation, Raytheon Company, The MITRE Corporation, Mitel Corporation, and Northrop Grumman.

There are also those of you advising leading corporations from your jobs at consulting firms. These include Andersen Consulting (Accenture), Arthur Andersen & Co., Computer Sciences Corporation, Whittman-Hart, Inc, American Management Systems, McKinsey & Company, Inc, Cambridge Technology Partners, Corporate Software & Technology, Perot Systems Corporation, and Booz, Allen & Hamilton.

Banks and financial services
A whole lot of you work for money managers. We have readers at Ernst & Young, Chase Manhattan Bank, Coopers & Lybrand, Deloitte & Touche, First Union National Bank, Citicorp, Price Waterhouse Technology Centre, Deutsche-Bank Group, J.P. Morgan, KPMG International, Bankers Trust New York Corporation, Zurich Financial Services, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, The Northern Trust Company, Fidelity Investments, Union Bank of California, Royal Bank of Canada, Merrill Lynch, Banque Paribas, Countrywide Funding Corporation, First Chicago, PNC Bank, Automatic Data Processing, Bank One, Arthur D. Little, Goldman Sachs, Prudential Securities, Lehman Brothers, Wells Fargo, Bank of New York, Fleet Bank, Thomson Financial Services, and even the World Bank.

Industrial
They say that one way to tell the men from the boys is the size of their toys. Well, the big industrial companies have some seriously cool toys. We have readers at General Electric, Boeing, DuPont, Eastman Kodak, Rockwell International, Cummins Engine Company, Unilever, Honeywell, Kraft, BASF, Fluor Daniel Corporation, Lyondell Chemical Company, Johnson Controls, Pratt & Whitney, Allied Signal, FMC, ALCOA, Union Pacific Railroad, Hughes, Underwriters Laboratories, Corning, United Technologies Corporation, and, of course, Caterpillar, which we profiled last month at http://www.palmpowerenterprise.com/issues/issue200105/caterpillar001.html.

Energy
One industry area that came as no surprise was energy. It definitely makes sense, given the value mobile technology can contribute to the far-flung nature of many energy businesses, that we'd have lots of readers here. We've got a whole lot of readers at energy-related firms including Mobil, Chevron, Florida Power and Light, Shell Oil, Amoco, Virginia Power, Enron, American Electric Power, CMS Energy, Occidental Petroleum, Duke Energy, Pacific Gas and Electric, EATON Corporation, First Energy Corporation, Schlumberger, American Power Conversion, Texaco, Phillips Petroleum, and Southern California Edison.