But we already have a number of low-cost, bare-bones mobile voice providers.

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Prices, even the dealers' true cost, are now laid bare with the click of a mouse on sites like Kelley's Blue Book and Microsoft's CarPoint.

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"Hyperscale companies architect their infrastructure with bare bones servers and open source software that scales-out cost-effectively in the hundreds and thousands, " said David Floyer, Wikibon Chief Technology Officer.

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One of the ways they're going to defray the cost of the physical product is to sell some of these CDs - reissues specifically - in a bare-bones format that won't include the traditional jewel case, but instead they'll use a cardboard sleeve.

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