Byline: ELIZABETH CORCORAN Washington Post
Microsoft Corp. is facing an unusual alliance of five powerful companies that are working together on new technology that could topple the software giant from its perch atop the high-tech world.
The five competitors -- International Business Machines Corp., Netscape Communications Corp., Novell Corp., Oracle Corp., and Sun Microsystems Corp. -- have been driven together by two forces: a cold fear of Microsoft's continued hegemony and a shared vision of a new Internet-based ``platform'' that would be open to all. To plan strategy, executives of the five companies said they and their colleagues have been meeting, …
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