The HP Cloud is based on OpenStack and is a direct competitor to Amazon Web Services.
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You can lose, win or draw but if you lose against your direct competitor it is painful.
But articles like this position Flash as an apples-to-apples direct competitor to HTML5, when in fact, they are complementary.
Is Twitter a direct competitor to major sports magazines (who also use it), and blogging platforms with media giants (same)?
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The alleged victims, note, are among Intel's customers: only Digital, with its Alpha chip, is a direct competitor among them.
As a pre-paid seller, Leap is a direct competitor of MetroPCS with the distinct disadvantage of being a fraction of its size.
In late July, Facebook launched the beta version of Questions, a question-and-answer product that seems to be a direct competitor of Quora.
In actual practice, it is extremely rare that a small developer would ever be sued for infringement by any entity other than a direct competitor.
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"They thought Google would just be a technology provider but it has become a portal in its own right and a direct competitor, " he added.
Airbus is also developing a direct competitor to the 787, the A350XWB, although that is not scheduled to go into service for another five years.
South Korea gained because it is a direct competitor to Japan.
Regarding your editorial "The Ethanol Gas-Pump Surcharge" (March 12): Once again The Wall Street Journal sides with Big Oil and its monopoly against ethanol, Big Oil's direct competitor.
While its direct competitor, the Nokia 8210 series, was intended as a stylish high-end phone, it uses a forgettable bar form-factor with interchangeable covers just like many of its contemporaries.
It is already ten times bigger than its next biggest direct competitor, and it doubled its stock of images last year, from 10, 000 to 20, 000, partly by buying smaller niche players or licensing their products.
This year, analyst feedback prompted us to apply a revenue multiple of 3.5, in between that of FactSet, the highly profitable financial data firm (approx 5 x sales), and slightly sluggish Thomson Reuters, a direct competitor (just under 2 x sales).
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His Amazon Prime video streaming service is a direct competitor to Netflix (in the release, the company announced it reached a licensing agreement with EPIX giving their users access to movies like The Avengers, Iron Man 2, and the Hunger Games, meaning the cable channel ended its exclusivity with Netflix) and, to a certain extent, the Apple iTunes store.
Kathryn Wylde, who ran the Housing Partnership for many years and now heads the Partnership for New York City, the city's main business group, said the Housing Partnership was "going entrepreneurial, " but that it wasn't likely to be a direct mortgage competitor with major banks.
For example, if we don't have what the customer wants, we'll actually recommend at least three competitor websites and direct the customer to a competitor if they find the shoe.
Both Dish and its competitor Direct TV (DTV) have been attempting to diversify.
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