As illustrated with the Amtrak example, in order to have a multi-device solution, it requires even more time and resources for software development and hardware.

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Compared with even five years, the cost of a startup has fallen dramatically from a hardware, software and development perspective.

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Innovation follows these opportunities and we look forward to see where that takes us in the development of digital storage hardware and software.

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When his colleagues contemplated project costs, they thought about development costs, hardware costs and software costs, but not about support and maintenance costs after the technology is implemented, for instance.

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The emergence of hardware and software IP load-balancers in the late 1990s catalyzed the development of server-farms by transparently distributing incoming client requests among the servers of a farm.

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And, as is usual with software development, the products are way ahead of the hardware.

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The third-generation Gobi modem chipsets also have an integrated application processor and hardware accelerators with a feature rich, Linux-based application development environment and optional mobile access point software stack.

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