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...Lindbergh--who bought Illiec, off France's Brittany coast, in 1938 after his infant son was murdered--have long acquired private islands for safety and privacy. In the 1990s, as the millionaire club became far less exclusive, island purchases grew into a worldwide market, from Australia's Great Barrier Reef to the Indian Ocean. Off the coast of Georgia, Moeser can sell you 2,600-acre Hampton Island, with a Greek Revival plantation house, for $16 million. And in the frigid waters off Nova Scotia, Vladi Private Islands, based in Hamburg, Germany, offers properties like fir-forested, 2-acre Nubble...
...beaten both its profit and revenue numbers for six consecutive quarters, and second-quarter revenues were up 500% over 2000. Why has Reef continued to sparkle in the darkness of the downturn? Good management, focus on the bottom line and an ability to save its customers money...
...Brawerman and his team concentrate on cutting companies' website costs and putting data management back in the hands of the people who use it. Reef's software often pays for itself within a month or two, a deal many chief financial officers find hard to resist...
...Among Reef's big name clients: Air Liquide, Siemens and Vivendi. The software company currently does 65% of its business...
...Forward Spin: Reef is continuing to develop online collaborative tools that enable users to cut and paste web presentations on the fly. The company is betting that customers will want to adapt content to multiple platforms, such as TV, mobile phones and computers...