OK, what's with express cards

OK, I'll admit it.......I'm a little slow.
It took me a week to figure out I have no pcmcia port on my new MBP. Expresscard???!!! Never heard of one.
This is seriously bumming me out, because I was planning on using my sierra wireless card (pcmcia) with bootcamp (or parallels) when I am on the road.
What gives with the expresscard port? Does anyone actually make hardware for it? I don't see much in this format up on the apple site, that's for sure.

Do not, I repeat, DO NOT get anything from firewire direct. I ordered their fw800 card in May. It never worked. I've sent it back (using an RMA number provided by them---at my expense) and after they have had it for over a week, I have heard nothing from them. Their response to the problem originally was to "give them time to figure it out". I gave them more than two weeks. They never got back to me as planned so I contacted them. All apologies, they gave me an rma number and told me to return it. When they received it they would send me a new one. So here I wait---they have my money and they have the card. [I'll get off the soap box now.]
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