Opnet has since sold the battle-hardened application to commercial clients, including a big phone company.

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According to LPA trainees they were always instructed to put "British" on the mortgage application forms of foreign clients.

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He says Microsoft currently has the application servers and the clients, such as Pocket PC and the Stinger smart phones currently under development, but lacks the glue to tie the two together.

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She has her clients download the application so they can do a little searching on their own.

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We just focus on making sure the application we sell is helping our clients be as productive as possible.

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It helps clients build and validate an application and then release it in-house or to a cloud.

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Since the application calls for the name of the trust, clients will need to settle upon that in advance, or have their lawyers apply for dummy numbers, and notify the IRS later that the trust creator, trustee and name of the trust was changed at the last minute.

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This is why so many of our clients choose an in-house CRM system over a cloud based application.

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The same clients who are purchasing NT-based servers for some client and application servers are sticking with Unix for business-critical applications, Yeates said.

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With the acquisition of Fortify, HP will be able to accelerate development of this technology to give clients the accuracy and prioritization they need around security vulnerabilities to build scalable enterprise application security programs.

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