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The open-source, Linux-based service has the potential to shake up the wireless industry when it hits phones later this year.

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Duncan said the strongest trends his company sees in these development initiatives are in the growth of service-oriented software architectures, subscription-based software sales and industry-specific standards in areas such as radio frequency tags and cellular telephony standards.

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Throughout the decades, with the help of his children, John and Kurt Epprecht and Heidi Eller, he transformed what was an Ohio-based enterprise into a national player, supplying cheese to retailers and the food service industry.

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If companies within every industry adopted an ethic of service that encouraged and incented skills-based, pro bono contributions from employees, imagine what could be accomplished.

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