Ronald Cole, chairman and chief executive of Brown Disc Products Co has announced that IBM Corp is not the company with which he is negotiating for Internet access, as had been suggested in press reports. We are talking to a very large Internet service provider, Cole told Reuters. He declined to disclose the name but said that the company’s shares were publicly traded. Last week, Colorado Springs, Colorado-based Brown Disc announced it was in talks to acquire a systems integration company that would provide security on the Internet to corporations and provide needed expertise to handle electronic software delivery. The company is a software duplicator and distributor. But, as Cole pointed out, the future of software distribution is electronic and the company Brown Disc is negotiating to buy would have to provide the type of security needed. He said the unidentified company was private and based in Colorado and has figured out to make the Internet secure enough to send software over the network.
