1.   Pericom makes the logic chips that manage how computer processors work with memory and add-on devices, or how whole computer systems interact with each other.

2.   SilverStream is a well-respected player in the young market for Web services software, which allows computer systems to interact with one another, without direct human intervention.

3.   Showers will dampen the central Missouri Valley as a low pressure system interacts with a jet stream disturbance.

4.   SilverStream, based in Billerica, Mass., makes software that permits different computing systems to interact online.

5.   When the two systems interact, it is difficult to gauge the power of the hybrid.

6.   Oracle is hoping the service will help sell more of its applications software, although the Wingcast system will also interact with products made by other software companies.

7.   This system will interact with diurnal heating, sea breeze and winds forced upward by mountains to produce scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms across our area this afternoon.

8.   This could result in numerous showers and isolated thunderstorms over our area as this system interacts with the diurnal heating and the weak front mentioned before.