31.   Field sales representatives can use laptop computers to review their e-mail, for example, or link up with a corporate computer network to check product availability.

32.   Expanding an existing alliance, Computer Associates and Microsoft Corp. said Tuesday they would jointly market a software package combining programs from each company for corporate computer systems.

33.   Friday, many corporate computer managers took precautions to stop the transmission of the program by simply closing their networks to electronic mail with Visual Basic attachments.

34.   For years, customers and vendors had to dial directly into corporate computers to conduct electronic business.

35.   He said the bulk of gains in profitability will come from a shift toward so-called enterprise, or large corporate computer, systems.

36.   He said that although Rhapsody would be a very important product, it would appear first on high-end corporate computers, or servers, instead of on consumer machines.

37.   His goal, he says, is not to make corporate computer systems immune to hackers.

38.   Hitachi Data Systems in Santa Clara, which sells large corporate computers, will continue to operate and may pick up some functions of the PC operation.

39.   However, many big computer companies now focus on services -- setting up, maintaining and running corporate computer networks -- and the competition could become deadly.

40.   H-P said sales of powerful Unix servers, which distribute data in a corporate computer network, were lower because of older products.