InfoWorld picks ten business-oriented fledglings and with a focus on great technology, rather than money, marketing, or manufacturing smarts. “What did we seek? At least one of three qualities: truly new technologies, innovative approaches within existing technology areas, and technologies applied in new ways to solve different problems,” Bill Snyder explains in Inside 2008’s hottest tech startups. “Laborious as it was, the judging rewarded us with a wealth of new ideas to ponder, new technologies to evaluate and, most important of all, the clear sense that innovation, the real engine of the technology industry, is not only alive and well but thriving in Silicon Valley and beyond.” Software Development