What is worth a lot to me because I can extract value by integrating with my existing infrastructure isn't worth that much to a Singapore bank that doesn't have the same economies of scale.

CNN: PLUS

They offer several different approaches to integrating collaborative capabilities into the IT infrastructure: standalone on-premise application platforms, remote or cloud-based hosted applications, components that integrate directly into other enterprise tools or those that integrate into enterprise portals and web sites.

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The import behind that statement is that customers can get on with the business of running a shoe business or a CPG company or a bank and begin withdrawing from the costly, maddening, and ultimately low-value world of evaluating, testing, purchasing, integrating, deploying, monitoring, patching, and babysitting vast swaths of infrastructure and applications and networks and storage.

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