1.   This strategy was possible because they have sold mainframes mostly to computer vendors in the country concerned rather than through direct sales channels.

2.   Analysts say Dell is the only major computer vendor making money on PCs.

3.   Computer system vendors, eager to avoid bidding wars and vendor monopolies, have banded together to develop a remedy.

4.   Ellison said the Redwood City database software company has signed up Acer, the Taiwanese computer vendor, to make NCs in the Philippines.

5.   If they have worked with a computer vendor before, they can use him.

6.   In light of the debate over national industrial policy, the panel called for the elimination of direct project financing for the development of commercial hardware by computer vendors.

7.   Internet service providers and computer vendors would have to disclose the security provisions of the systems and services they sell, and could be sued for negligence.

8.   Such strategies allow computer vendors to demonstrate how their technology can deliver right now.

9.   That puts computer vendors in a tough position.

10.   The head of a leading industry group said he was not surprised that the three computer vendors tried to buck Microsoft.