111.   A federal appeals court ruled last year that the giant software company had violated the Sherman Antitrust Act.

112.   A few bars later, investors were promenading with software companies like Ariba and CommerceOne, whose software would run the marketplaces.

113.   A leaked memorandum from a Microsoft Corp. engineer suggests that the famously competitive software company is girding for battle against the upstart Linux operating system.

114.   A monthly survey measuring the popularity of shareware programs, which has become an industry yardstick, is produced by a computer software company in Scottsdale called FormGen Corp.

115.   A group of multimedia software companies led by Microsoft said yesterday they had agreed to a standard method of broadcasting video over the Internet.

116.   A Houston software company has a new program that knows how to put you in your place.

117.   A month earlier, it bought software company Internet Junction Inc.

118.   A new service from a small San Francisco software company aims to add virtual stores to the virtual communities that are sprouting online.

119.   A slump in the shares of another Seattle-area software company weighed on the Puget Sound index today.

120.   A software company gets paid once for each version of software it sells.