Note 1.  Description of Business

Wayside Technology Group, Inc. and Subsidiaries (the “Company”), was incorporated in Delaware in 1982.  The Company distributes technology products developed by others to resellers who in turn sell to end customers worldwide. The Company also resells computer software and hardware developed by others and provides technical services directly to customers in the United States of America (“USA”) and Canada. The Company also operates a sales branch in Europe to serve our customers in this region of the world. The Company offers an extensive line of products from leading publishers of software and tools for virtualization/cloud computing, security, networking, storage & infrastructure management, application lifecycle management and other technically sophisticated domains as well as computer hardware.

The Company is organized into two reportable operating segments. The “Lifeboat Distribution” segment distributes technical software to corporate resellers, value added resellers (VARs), consultants and systems integrators worldwide. The “TechXtend” segment is a value-added reseller of software, hardware and services, selling to end user corporations, government organizations and academic institutions in the USA and Canada.