Wells Fargo analyst Jayson Maynard, who has previously expressed his skepticism about the prospects for such a deal, today repeated his view that such a combination is likely not going to unfold.

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This concentration of fire is achieved by a combination of programming that causes an individual computer to make repeated requests as fast as it can and the ganging together of as many computers as possible to undertake this work at the same time.

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