1.   Alsop says the company is in the midst of a product transition from the UNIX platform to the more mainstream Microsoft Windows operating system.

2.   Analysts are lauding Gateway for quickly resolving product transition and inventory issues, which plagued it in the second quarter.

3.   At the time, Cheyenne faced a string of difficult quarters that it attributed to a product transition and seasonal downturn.

4.   Garrity said the product transition represents an opportunity for long-term investors such as Capital Research.

5.   He said the issues that plagued IBM in the first half -- a strong currency, lower memory prices and product transitions -- will ebb in the months ahead.

6.   He said the issues that plagued IBM in the first half -- currency, lower memory prices and product transitions -- will ebb going forward.

7.   Netscape Communications Corp. could report lower-than-expected earnings this quarter because of a rocky product transition, a Wall Street analyst said.

8.   Product transitions have often been a thorny issue for Silicon Graphics, and many of its competitors, but this one appears to be more serious.

9.   The company is still in the middle of a delicate product transition, moving to computers based on a microprocessor developed in concert with IBM and Motorola.

10.   The company also said sales of its SmartPage software were hampered by a product transition, which it said is now completed.