Sistema also controls MTS, a mobile network operating in Russia and many post-Soviet nations.
Sun has always held tight control over Solaris, its proprietary network operating system for server computers.
As a result, many fewer, centrally located backup generators can keep the wired network operating.
Founded in 1983, Novell rose to prominence for its network operating system, Netware.
Mutual Broadcasting System, American commercial radio network, operating from 1934 until 1999.
The product now also runs on other major versions of Unix and on Microsoft's Windows NT network operating system.
But will any network operating rationally bid more than the $1.18 billion that NBC is paying for London?
He is expected to call time on "rewards for failure" and the "old boy network" operating on remuneration committees.
"For example, the man arrested yesterday in France appears to have been part of a parallel network operating in the Francophone sphere".
Whatever the merits of the Kashmir dispute, India is right to demand that President Pervez Musharraf crack down on the terrorist network operating out of Pakistan "or else".
Avis-owned Zipcar claims to be the world's largest network, operating in London, Bristol, Oxford, Cambridge and Maidstone, plus more than 50 cities across Europe and North America.
