21.   Companies routinely take apart competing products to see how they work.

22.   Compaq ships a competing Microsoft product, NetShow, that it gets free.

23.   Competing products were moved to less prominent locations, according to store owners.

24.   Even Microsoft, which is developing a competing product, was forced in December to license Java in a concession to its popularity.

25.   Even those who are very sophisticated about technology acknowledge that the complexity of modern software leaves them generally unable to judge the technical merits of competing products.

26.   Executives at Lotus Development Corp. are fuming at new research reports claiming their flagship Notes groupware product is much more costly than a competing product from archrival Microsoft Corp.

27.   Even doctors who believe there is little to distinguish the competing product lines fear the legal risks they run if they get poor results during a switch-over.

28.   If varying alcohol strengths are lawful, I see no reason why brewers may not advise customers that their beverages are stronger or weaker than competing products.

29.   In addition, Silicon Graphics is required to maintain an open architecture so that other software makers other than Alias and Wavefront could develop competing products.

30.   In addition, Zantac sales began dropping earlier this year for the first time ever in the face of competing products, one key reason Glaxo bought Wellcome.