He threw the first ball at a Texas Rangers baseball game and visited a hardware shop.

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Muhammad Kasro was curled up in the back of his small hardware shop in Arbil bazaar last month when an explosion interrupted his siesta.

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Townsfolk can grab the free Patriot at the grocer, hardware store or convenience shop--anywhere White has a rack.

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From complex accounting systems to the stuff that tracks employee performance, compensation and inventories, he'll bring it all together and run it for customers in his data centers, saving them the headache and upfront cost of buying hardware from Ellison's shop, HP, Dell or IBM.

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