1.   Software pioneer David Goldman, chairman and chief executive of the Sage Group, was named Entrepreneur of the Year in the annual Coppers Deloitte Awards.

2.   Bill Gates, the computer software pioneer, has added his weight to the chorus of voices warning that Internet stocks have become seriously overvalued.

3.   Lotus, a software pioneer, was acquired by IBM Corp. last summer.

4.   Lotus, an early software pioneer, was acquired by IBM last summer.

5.   Sybase founder Mark Hoffman, who left the database software pioneer in a high-level shakeup last summer, is back in the high-tech trenches.

6.   Though Irish software pioneers like Iona Technologies and Trintech blazed the trail, none have capitalized on it like Baltimore.