Alternate Solutions, Inc.

Alternate Solutions Inc., Camp Hill, was named by Computerworld magazine as one of the "100 Hot Emerging Companies" of 1997, according to a press release. The winners were chosen from more than 350 high-tech companies nationwide. A team of top computer-industry experts judged nominees on technological innovation and their ability to solve information problems and help generate business value for their customers. Computerworld said Alternate Solutions and the other companies that made the Top 100 had several ingredients for success in common: "Like vision. Passion. Marketing savvy. Good old-fashioned luck. And yes, naturally, competent technology." A "hot" company, according to Boston-based industry analyst Howard Anderson, is one with "the right product in the right market with the right distribution and the right strategic partners at the right time." Two computer sales representatives, Jeff Colosimo and Charlie Kennedy, founded Alternate Solutions as a network systems integration business in 1990. The company was named No. 26 on Central Penn Business Journal's Top 50 Fastest Growing Companies list because of its 1994-96 growth.