This distinction will lead you to decide if you need a stand-alone website and a stand-alone app (with all of the extra development time and expense that entails) or if you can start with a responsive website that can do it all (with potential performance and device functionality penalties).

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They must sell public cloud compute IaaS as a stand-alone service, without the requirement to bundle it with managed hosting, application development, application maintenance or other outsourcing.

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In the discussions that are taking place about what will replace the Millennium Development Goals post-2015, there are voices arguing for abandonment of this stand-alone commitment to women's equality, in favor of a more generalized commitment to tackle 'inequality.

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