Avalon also forecasts more deals where 'sales' can be regained as music gets bundled in with products.
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Microsoft claims that it bundled the two products to improve user experience.
Riskier products could be bundled and sold more efficiently because of new electronic payment systems, and in combinations reaching a greater range of buyers, increasingly far from the original loan.
Hardware sales influence the sales of software products since they are bundled by storage vendors.
This was a reference to the "subprime" products made up of bundled mortgages which triggered a chain of events that led to the credit crunch and taxpayers having to rescue banks.
On the face of it, requiring Microsoft to sell Windows and Explorer as separate products as well as bundled ones would end the arguments except that Microsoft claims they are not a bundle at all, rather a single product incapable of being broken into parts.
Infor will be launching three new ERP products on Force.com bundled under the InForce brand.
That's what happened in mass-tort settlements involving asbestos, Vioxx, fen-phen and other products, where lawyers cleverly bundled hundreds or even thousands of claims that might not stand a good chance in court with a few that threatened blockbuster verdicts.
The products are also able to synchronize bundled PIM applications with Microsoft Outlook.
But by next quarter, he expects to introduce home products that he calls "Internet appliances" and small-business computers bundled with services delivered over the Internet.
The changes were designed to focus the company on creating groups of products that work together to meet the needs of specific end markets, such as the way Intel bundled a laptop processor with wireless networking technologies to create its Centrino brand.
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