An avid basketball fan, Hughes examined the tournament structure of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and applied that structure to the software competitions held by TopCoder.

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The structure of the software industry backs this up.

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The Smart Grid resists attacks on both the physical infrastructure (substations, poles, transformers, etc.) and the cyber-structure (markets, systems, software, communications).

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Nearly 2 million people around the world use a site called Github to collaborate on software without being part of a formal coordinating structure.

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Training doesn't just involve teaching someone how to structure an aircraft loan, write nifty software or even hew to company policies.

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Beginning with the well-known Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) structure, Gartner added in a Business and Information Systems layer that includes brokerages, management and security.

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The difference from typical lead management software is the freedom to create their own view of the structure of the information, and also being able to bring or transfer the context of almost all they know about each lead with their manager, or others in their sales team.

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Yes, is the conclusion of stock analysts after the telecom software firm said it was undergoing a "strategic review of its corporate and capital structure" during a disappointing quarterly profit announcement late Thursday.

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