However, until then, users will continue to experience architectural changes to technologies, business models and vendor alignments in the PaaS market.

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The point is that each new technology created a more expressive architectural language for businesses than the technologies that came before (and on which it depended).

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The traditional design and practices for building these bridges combine the use of wood, traditional architectural tools, craftsmanship, the core technologies of beam-weaving' and mortise and tenon joints, and an experienced woodworker's understanding of different environments and the necessary structural mechanics.

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In other words, for every solar panel or smart meter the U.S. exports, expect there to be twice as many exports in the form of architectural design of green buildings, energy audits and licensing of U.S. clean technologies.

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And perhaps the biggest expression of architectural choice is a hybrid architecture: rather than using a single database technology, mixing and matching technologies to play to their strengths.

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