Any customer who wants to change to another product would need to spend a fortune retraining staff, replacing software and so on.
But in the business world, the shift to the cloud has been complicated greatly by the incumbency of traditional on-premises systems and infrastructure and applications, plus all the myriad layers of complexity and cost that were required to string together disparate software and servers and networks and middleware and so on.
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So they hired a dozen Bell Labs engineers and put them to work on software so robust that even finicky phone carriers would trust it to track and bill millions of customers.
Like many of my clients with employees who insist on using Apple products you are going to be spending time and money on software to run Windows locally on their MacBooks so that they can access your Windows based network and use your Windows based applications that everyone else is using.
Each flagship Samsung Smart TV comes with a Smart Evolution slot at the back of the TV that allows consumers to easily update the hardware and software on their TVs so that they can stay up-to-date with the latest innovations.
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There, they will have content developed and have people tweaking the software so that games will work on a variety of handsets and networks.
Increasingly, however, founder PV Kannan is focused on building software so websites can predict customer problems and suggest solutions, without forcing people to wait on the phone.
Instead, it relies on common software protocols and formats so that individual computer applications can find and talk to one another across the internet.
He asked whether any of us in the room had trading software on our machines and, if so, whether we were inclined to use it.
Consumers often care about backward compatibility as well, but it is even more important for businesses since they typically have made much bigger investments in related software, documents, documentation, training, and so on.
Just as biotechnology and software have sprung up outside the mainstream drugs and computer industries, so the industry that has grown up on voice circuits will find it hard to transfer its grip to the new world of data networks.
Android operating system, which is used with an array of device makers and is based on open-source software, so it can be more vulnerable to security breaches.
This is a software lock so you can't copy the song and pass it on.
Another New Jersey company, CommVault specializes in software for data management: archiving, disaster recovery, migration and so on.
Domestic companies may delay buying new PCs and other hardware, says IDC analyst Stephen Minton, but they'll keep spending on so-called virtualization software from VMware and others that increases the efficiency of servers.
If it wants to work with multiple content providers on the other hand, there is a good bet it might work with a company like Education Elements, which is emerging as a leader in helping schools move to blended-learning models and offering a single sign-on software solution for schools so they can easily work with multiple content vendors.
There is a huge opportunity for software research being done in semantic analysis, unstructured search techniques, and so on, that can be applied in this business.
So BEA instead installed Popular Power's software and a testing program on 50 powerful Windows NT boxes in its San Francisco offices.
Another difference is that unlike the DVD version of the Creative Suite, a Creative Cloud subscription allows you to install your software on two different platforms, so if you run both the Windows and OS X versions simultaneously.
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So programmers and software developers have been creating applications, but it's only available on those two devices.
The code has been put on the CodePlex website so developers can freely download and share the software.
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Of course, exploiting a hole is also the only way to test that it has been fixed, so those outside the inner circle will be forced to rely on the software vendor's say-so when they get fixes and patches.
Flexibility is required on multiple levels and requires network software to be changed rapidly in the face of so-called Zero Day attacks, i.e.
The new executive could equally propose that Nokia focus on developing own software products and other operating systems like Meego or WindowsPhone 7, so it may boil down to what Elop wants.
The software loaded on devices will have to know something about its owner's likes and dislikes so it only gives them notice of the things they are interested in, says Mr Stenton.
Canonical is also working with the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on a version of Kylin that will run on servers so websites, online shops and hosting firms can adopt the software.
Local officials in Rwanda now have mobile phones loaded with software that allows them to enter and transmit health data back to their base so they can access information on potential outbreaks, shortages of medicines and so on in real time.
Already software writers feel salary pressure from India, cartoon animators from China, classified ad salesmen from Ebay and so on.
Recruited by Jobs from Compaq in 1998, Cook got Apple out of the messy business of manufacturing so Jobs could focus the company on what it does best: industrial design and software.
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