Meyer Feig, who had a five-man computer consulting and staffing concern in the trade center, said he had been organized, aggressive, "really nudgey."

More discreetly, many residents work from home at such ocupations as writing, sales, oil importing and computer consulting.

There have already been a few scuffles between traditional office-machine services and the newer computer consulting and repair companies.

But the renovation would take years and cost $2 million, financed mostly through Mr. Richmond's computer consulting.

He'd been a trader his entire career, but then he decided he wanted to do computer consulting, learned how, and made the change.

Instead, it is dropping unprofitable routes and focusing on subsidiary businesses like computer consulting.

Off went Mr. Desai to meet with a computer consulting client in Newark.

He practiced law for nine years before forming his own computer consulting and web design company, Imagine Enterprises.

Its name at founding was Xenon Laboratories Incorporated and originally, the company provided computer consulting and internet services to businesses.

Reptile started out as a one man effort, in 2002, as a computer consulting, support, and services company for the medical industry.