With Intel as a partner, the massive sales teams of these enterprise players will all get trained, the use cases will be determined and fleshed out, and serious enterprise adoption of the early and late majority will begin.

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Enterprise users for the most part tolerate their technology because in most cases it was inflicted on them.

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Relational databases went from narrow use cases to being used for multiple tasks all over the enterprise with APIs, apps on top, and eventually through systems like ERP, they became the center of the enterprise.

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In most cases the core business value chain will need to be opened up by mobile-enabling legacy enterprise applications, transactions, and databases to make core functions available on which to build a set of new mobile-friendly business functions.

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Enterprise does a special insurance check to make sure a customer's policy transfers over, though in some cases credit cards also provide rental-car insurance.

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