1.   Another company, Massachusetts-based Viisage Technology Inc., offers a competing system.

2.   And yet, the policy is intended to maintain the technological leadership of the United States in this area and discourage foreign attempts to develop competing systems.

3.   A competing system has been developed by Toshiba and Pioneer, and a third called Video CD by Technics, Sanyo and others.

4.   A migration of trading volume to competing trading systems would not only reduce its revenues, it would also undermine the value of that brand.

5.   All that changed last year, when two competing systems began marketing Direct Broadcast Satellite, or DBS for short.

6.   But he said the scramble to promote competing systems had not been healthy for either law enforcement or the public.

7.   CardioThoracic Systems Inc. launched a competing system earlier this month.

8.   Cost of computer products and training employees to use them would be higher if there were several competing systems, Dell said.

9.   EMC does not have a competing Fibre Channel system on the market.

10.   Foreign computer companies have also developed competing systems.