Often, the proposal includes consulting services along with either software products or hardware equipment, In these situations, the proposal team can provide itemized pricing.

提案常常包括咨询服务和软件产品（或硬件设备），在这种情况下，提案团队会提供分项报价。

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In the past, IBM's software products were built on proprietary hardware, operating systems, and application components.

在过去，IBM的软件产品构建于专有的硬件、操作系统，和应用组件之上。

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Easy updates. Today, much of the functionality in many hardware products is accomplished through firmware — embedded software that can be updated over the Internet after a product ships.

目前，很多五金产品的大部分功能是在产品发布以后，运用网络对产品的嵌入式软件——固件升级实现的。

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They come to that conclusion presumably because revenue from the sale of Sun hardware has declined since the acquisition, and they lock on to that opinion in spite of the fact that Oracle executives at the time of the deal said they were going to eliminate unprofitable hardware products, low-value hardware products, and no-future hardware products in spite of the inevitable revenue impacts.

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Apple do not manufacture the hardware components in it products.

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It competes with IBM, EMC, NetApp, Hewlett-Packard and Hitachi Data Systems in the storage hardware market by selling products like flash drives, magneto-optical drives, magnetic tape drives and compact drives that are used for backing up data on servers.

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