As issuers hope not only tap into a more-liquid market, but also issuer-friendly documentation and covenant packages as well as save on interest costs in some cases.

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Compaq, HP, and IBM have inked partnership agreements with all the major distributions, but managing multiple documentation sets, utilities, and installation packages for essentially the same operating system kernel may weed out some distributions over time.

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