By the time it went public, YGSOFT had two types of rivals: UFIDA and Kingdee in general financial software for businesses.

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General Magic's latest offer for creating agents is a software package called Tabriz.

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The software to run it, which is now available for general use, can be downloaded from CyberTracker's website for nothing.

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Last month Anthony Scott, the chief technology officer for General Motors, had executives from Oracle, Microsoft, PeopleSoft and other software houses in for a reaming.

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On-line data centers are increasing their capacity to deal with this increased demand for processing power, communication speeds and digital storage capacity but despite the increases in efficiency of enterprise equipment and software there is a price to pay for universal connectivity and general on-line resources.

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For one thing, the core element of Linux is distributed under a general public license maintained by the Free Software Foundation.

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Webaroo's 55 software engineers have figured out how to throw out all but what they deem necessary for the general public to do decent searches.

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