Got a nose bleed? Don't worry. That just means it's time to get out of the elevator. And meet the closed doors you'll never enter. What does it take to get in the Penthouse? Everything you're not. Sure, you can look at the building directory. While we call security. IBM Corporation International Business Machines. Very same "Big Blue" that gave away the store to three 19-year-olds 20 years ago now features multilingual Dilbert cartoons on its corporate billboards. No, the unsmiling ones aren't imitating cartoons. Cartoons just grew up and wiped that smile off their faces. And that's an order. Lotus Development Corporation Friendly people who brought you ccMail that doesn't now offer "Domino" Internet development. We think we see the light at the end of that tunnel. Time to switch tracks -- fast. Microsoft Corporation Fourteen-year-old beneficiaries of the corporate mistake heard round the world now leverage corporate MS-DOS hostages to "discipline" superior operating systems. Latest product, ActiveX, turns open borders into iron curtains. So why don't people in long pants like the Lord of the Flies? Novell, Inc. Makers of network products that systematically prove PC LANs and WANs don't work have quietly redirected all R&D efforts to intranet development tools. But don't tell building management. Or the kids next door. Symantec Corporation Inventors of legendary Norton Utilities and Norton AntiVirus products seem quite content to clean up after decade-old Windows and Macintosh mistakes. However, recent Java Caffeine and Café products suggest mixed feelings about life in the Bunker.