The suit was ultimately dropped, but it opened the door for rivals to sell hardware or software compatible with the IBM mainframe.
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The company also announced an agreement with Microsoft Corp . to offer versions of its software compatible with Microsoft's Windows NT computer operating system.
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The Productivity Works product, Pwtelephone, runs on software compatible with Windows, and will essentially turn Brummond's Web page into a voice on the phone.
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Users can use Giac / Xcas as well as a free software compatible with Maple to develop formal algorithms or use it in other software.
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The aim of the alliance is to make Oracle's database and global positioning system software compatible with DoCoMo's 3G, or third-generation, wireless technology, they said.
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Cullinan said Microsoft still would provide AOL with the technical information it needs to make the company's Internet software compatible with XP if users install it themselves.
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He said C-Port would soon announce a collaboration with IBM for a standard for their architecture so that software compatible with IBM hardware will also work with C-Port's hardware.
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During his presentation, McNealy took several jabs at Microsoft's Gates, who has begun pouring his company's energy-- and money-- into creating operating systems and software compatible with the Internet.
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The suit is an attempt to force the provider, which is considered the McDonald's of Web providers with 20 million users, to make its software compatible with screen-reader technologies.
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Nine state attorneys general argued Friday that Microsoft must offer a stripped-down version of its Windows operating system and make its leading Office software compatible with competing operating systems.
