So are there any apartment REITs that build their strategies around a focused core of competence that leads to greater competitive advantage?

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So they decided to build their own, starting from the core with data structures, algorithms, indexing and continuous loading of new data and starting a new company for the product, ParStream.

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The happy outcome: a number of excitingly fresh and yet feasible ideas for the core team to build into their planning cycle.

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The bigger problem is that the majority of the folks this appeals to are already the hard core gamers and pc enthusiasts who build their own rigs as it is.

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