This caused many enterprise executives to conclude that IT was not required to be one of their core business competencies and either threw their data center management staff, or in many cases their entire data centers, overboard.

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Instead, it has caused many a modest enterprise to take a spill.

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The Forum of Private Business in Scotland said the analysis caused "the greatest concern" and again criticised Enterprise Minister Iain Gray for refusing to back recommendations to cut business rates.

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