1.   But two industry competitors, James L. Barksdale, president of Netscape, and Scott McNealy, chairman of Sun Microsystems, contended that Microsoft was smothering its competition.

2.   In purchasing Fred Meyer, Kroger also regains its long-held bragging rights as the largest industry competitor ranked by revenue.

3.   McNealy said the only way to protect consumers and industry competitors is to break up Microsoft.

4.   Nevertheless, some analysts and industry competitors are skeptical about whether NBC Internet is compelling enough to lure visitors and advertisers.

5.   Other industry competitors fell with Bay Networks.

6.   Still, the size and power of the company has left industry competitors wary.

7.   That take was echoed by other industry competitors.

8.   Media industry competitors Kirch and CLT-UFA, called a truce last year and agreed to jointly market digital television in Germany.