1.   And the final start-up, a developer of software platforms to allow wireless carriers to customize their mobile phone offerings, did not perk them back up.

2.   Art Technology Group makes software platforms that run commercial Web sites and integrate them with other computer systems inside a company.

3.   Browsers have the potential, like an operating system, to act as a software platform on which other programs run.

4.   But experts were mixed on whether businesses using other software platforms, namely Windows NT, will switch to Mac OS X.

5.   But we just finished the first wave of the Internet economy, during which we built out the physical infrastructure and created the key elements of the software platform.

6.   HP named its two newest software platforms Netaction and OpenView, a nod to the growing emphasis on moving software out of a box and on to the Web.

7.   It is designed to work under various software platforms, including Linux and Microsoft NT.

8.   Nowadays, candidates rely more on software platforms and Web sites.

9.   OpenTV Inc. and Liberate Technologies Inc. have become leaders in creating interactive TV software platforms, Snowden said.

10.   Parekh also likes Open Market Inc., which builds software platforms for Internet commerce and CKS Group, which builds corporate Web sites.