As an Industry leader and a trend-setter, Apple was famous for innovation-if you would call it so.

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Given that the company is now larger, has a more dominant position in publishing and is the world leader on the trend to on-line retail it is a very good stock to own.

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Brownell's company, Egenera, is an early leader in "virtualization, " the hot tech trend aimed at taming corporate data.

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