It is also a recognition that Microsoft contends in a world where companies like Amazon and Google offer a lot of Microsoft-type server and operational software, through cloud-based services.

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He has an extensive operational background in enterprise software, with stints at Citrix (Nasdaq:CTXS), Microsoft and VERITAS Software.

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Three features make this test particularly significant: For the first time, the hardware and software utilized was the operational configuration (known as AEGIS BMD 3.0) that will be installed in all other AEGIS missile defense ships.

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Take OpenView Venture Partners, a Boston-based venture capital fund that got started in September 2006.13 It invests in small to medium sized software development firms, and provides operational assistance to those firms.

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Because Tidemark software operates in the cloud, he contends, it can become operational with clients much more quickly.

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By providing this secure environment for multiple silicon, software and device manufacturing partners, the joint venture will enable greater operational efficiency across the ecosystem and the industry as a whole.

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By providing the common foundations of tools and software for other distributions and stacks to build upon, Linaro enables greater operational efficiency for the electronics industry.

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"Once the cameras are installed and operational, once they're networked to central computers, then it's a simple matter of upgrading the software, " he says.

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