And if this is a problem for competitors such as EMC (52% gross margin) and Network Appliance (66%), both of which are close partners in selling Oracle databases, well, says Ellison, "I have investments in a lot of areas.
The problem for competitors is making a dent in either lead, and that's something we haven't seen much indication will be all that possible as of yet.
And as the primary unfolds, Warren may have to deal with problems that competitors such as Sanders might not.
Investigators said a few providers, including America Online, had taken significant steps on their own to address some of the problems their competitors were being forced to tackle.
The company, based in Denver, said its newer equipment, lower costs and concentration on high-growth businesses like wireless communications and broadband Internet service spared it from the problems that competitors like SBC Communications and AT&T were experiencing.
A Chinese-owned company had come to him with a problem: a competitor had begun marketing a highly profitable tent, and the company wanted Levy to come up with something better.
However, sometimes the project will have shifted radically and the Thesis Committee should be kept abreast of changes in the stated goals and the progress made towards those goals, as well as problems or competitors' results that have influenced the student's project.
We sampled the vegetation of 44 isolated kurgans in East-Hungary and studied the effects of habitat area, slope, recent disturbance, past destruction and the level of woody encroachment on the species richness and cover of grassland specialist and problem species (competitor weedy species).
It's a bold move for Apple, considering the problems its competitors Hewlett-Packard and Dell have had lately, thanks to defective Nvidia processors.
