Big corporations tied to legacy software installations and multi-year contracts are finding it very hard to make the required transition, often stuck with software that was built 10 to 20 years ago.

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This was heresy, at a time when customers were paying billions of dollars for complex installations of software that required constant configuring.

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The xPrintServeris an easy-to-use hardware solution that utilizes the iOS native print menu and requires no additional applications, software downloads, or printer driver installations.

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But important drivers of services, such as new installations of enterprise resource planning software, are slowing down sharply.

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But important drivers of services, such as new installations of enterprise resource planning software from SAP and others, are slowing down sharply.

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The same goes for installations of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software.

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It was born in a different era, when free mobile apps proliferate through word of mouth, not crapware PC installations by computer makers and ads for shrink-wrapped software.

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One customer, Kerstin Schilling, chief executive of Bestsidestory GmbH, an online marketing provider based in Leipzig, Germany, hesitated a year before committing to Web-based software from SAP, in part because the firm evoked fears of long project installations and high costs.

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