Closed down in 1983 following Israel's invasion of Lebanon, the tiny Bourse de Beyrouth reopened in January 1996-with new bylaws, new Compaq computers and just three stocks.
Three out of five Compaq Armada laptop computers have been upgraded with the new Pentium IIIs, and will ship this week.
Stevens arms undergrads with Hewlett-Packard (nyse: HPQ - news - people ) Compaq Armada EV0 N800C notebook computers customized for the Stevens network.
Having seen their profit margins squeezed mercilessly, some of America's biggest suppliers of personal computers, including Compaq, Dell, Gateway and Hewlett Packard, have expanded into the fast-growing hosting business.
The plaintiffs in the cases received their copies of Windows when they bought personal computers from manufacturers like Compaq Computer (nyse: CPQ - news - people) and Dell Computer (nasdaq: DELL - news - people).
But how would Compaq survive if one of five of the computers it brought to the marketplace succeeded?
Trouble began after Compaq acquired Digital Equipment Corp. and Tandem Computers.
Six years later, she started selling other companies' computers and soon was responsible for half of Compaq's sales in China--the company's largest agent in the country.
Homes and offices were filling up with personal computers sold by the likes of Dell or Compaq, with CPUs from Intel, running on Windows 95 and later iterations of the dominant operating system from of Microsoft, and connected to the Internet with networking equipment from Cisco Systems.
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After deciding in the early 1990s to concentrate on laptop and notebook computers, it is now far ahead of rivals like Compaq and IBM with a lock on 20% of the world market.
Enter Compaq Computer, then a small Texas maker of sewing- machine-size portable computers.
Compaq jumped on the Internet in late 1998 with a line of small-business computers selected to appease resellers, whose focus is big corporations.
Local maker NEC still accounts for one of every two computers sold in the country, but according to one estimate, foreign brands such as Compaq, Apple and Packard Bell now have 40% of the market, up from 10% a few years ago.
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