The same consumer might not expect the application provider to retain a history of restaurants she visited over time.
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Developer payouts will continue to be processed in accordance with the provisions of the Windows Phone Marketplace Application Provider Agreement.
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If your email provider is approaching their application as a commoditized tool without any differentiation, then maybe you need to turn to a provider who understands that email is the core of business communications with the ability to significantly enhance productivity.
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What if a good part of your application infrastructure resides with a single cloud provider?
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Finally, application deployment and management on a PaaS provider typically comes with handy features such as auto provisioning and auto scaling.
The application, from video and voice conferencing provider Polycom, is being billed as the next stage in mobile video communications, a step beyond popular apps like Skype and Qik.
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This mean the PaaS provider will auto-magically add server instances as needed to support application processing, database processing, and storage.
But the actual hosting of the application, the actual requirements for that application to exist in a cloud environment, to connect to the virtualized resources and whatever administration tools the cloud providers may give you to configure and maintain the application, will be, for the most part, controlled by the cloud provider.
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