21.   In January the Mars Society announced a sponsorship deal for its research station with Flashline.com, an online software vendor.

22.   In recent years though, IBM has dropped much of its software portfolio and concentrated on forming partnerships with leading software vendors.

23.   Industry sources said Lucent is forging parallel marketing agreements with other telemarketing software vendors, including a system made by privately held Nabnasset Corp. of Acton, Mass.

24.   Instead, software vendors charged by time and materials, and the costs ballooned, he said.

25.   In the written testimony he had filed with the court, Schmalansee cited a survey of independent software vendors as overwhelmingly agreeing with that view.

26.   In their most innocuous configuration, the applets verify that the PC has the latest patches and fixes issued by the software vendor.

27.   In their most innocuous configuration, the devices verify that the PC has the latest patches and fixes issued by the software vendor.

28.   ISV --- Independent software vendor.

29.   It is not idiosyncratic to one teaching style or software vendor but something fundamental.

30.   Like Netscape and a handful of other Internet software vendors, Oracle will give away its browser.