Red Hat joins an increasingly crowded field of platform vendors, including Hewlett-Packard, Novell, IBM and other specialists and new firms offering these services.

I don't think Oracle and IBM want another Microsoft in Red Hat.

They don't have direct competitors but battle on the fringes with Compaq, Sun, IBM, and Hewlett-Packard.

Dell, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and now Compaq are all refining product and promotional efforts to appeal to small businesses, with the Internet and direct contact playing an increasingly important role.

I didn't know of the disparity, or I would have put it in my platform.

This is the HOV lane of litigation compared to IBM, ... The appeals process could go on for two years. Then there would be a question whether a remedy imposed today would make sense in the middle of 2002. The rate of technological change puts a lot of pressure on the joints of traditional antitrust litigation.