1.   And big companies are splurging on purchases of Windows NT, a computer program that controls the flow of information through corporate computer networks.

2.   Analysts, instead, are looking for continued strong growth in its Windows NT software, used by businesses within corporate computer networks.

3.   And so corporate computer users were happy to embrace an operating system based on the same philosophy.

4.   And the rise of the Internet has given companies a big new reason to track corporate computer use.

5.   Apparently that holds true for corporate computers as well.

6.   Apparently corporate computer thefts of this sort are quite common.

7.   Bay Networks said the acquisition of Xylogics would help expand its line of telecommunication devices linking workers with laptops and workers working from home with their corporate computer networks.

8.   Axent of Rockville, Md., creates software that defends corporate computer networks.

9.   Because of an erosion of the mainframe market, as many corporate computer users have opted for networks of smaller machines, IBM has scaled back its mainframe production.

10.   Bay Networks said the acquisition of Xylogics would help expand its line of telecommunication devices linking workers with laptops and working from home to their corporate computer networks.