Ecomagination also means selling more windmills, a controversial business where GE pushed itself into second place behind Denmark's Vestas Wind Systems by buying an Enron unit in 2002.
And they are trying to incorporate health information technology systems into their practice, without assurances that the systems they are buying will be able to exchange information with other systems.
Folks buying everything from cellphones to corporate computer systems are changing their buying habits--in theory, at least.
Earlier today IBM said it was buying Clarity Systems, a Toronto, Canada maker of financial governance software.
For instance, Kerr said that companies with Web sites that have large and unpredictable transaction rates could take advantage of the system's ability to scale by adding another node, rather than buying new systems.
After cleaning up its accounting scandals, Dell next decided to enter other businesses like providing turnkey software packages to major corporations, copying the approach of major tech firms like IBM, by buying Perot systems.
Local food need not be organic, but buying direct from small farmers short-circuits industrial production and distribution systems in the same way that buying organic used to.
Never mind buying new weapons systems to replace those that are now a quarter-century old.
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So, too, by buying US weapons systems, Israel has harmed its own military industries, which are blocked from selling or developing systems for the IDF contractors.
That's when RIM announced it was buying QNX Software Systems, the company whose operating system would ultimately provide the basis for BlackBerry 10 (and the PlayBook before it).
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Kaltbaum is also buying Varian Medical Systems (nyse: VAR - news - people ), a company that makes X-ray tubes and systems for treating cancer with radiation.
In the 1990s, the Pentagon stopped buying new military systems, and as a result the revolution in military affairs is being implemented with weapons that often seem more suited to museums.
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Kenneth Reid, editor of Spear's Security Industry Analyst recommends buying shares of OSI Systems , the Hawthorne, Calif.
School systems should be very wary of buying anything from this source.
T. systems offered solutions as simple as buying a book, booking travel or making a restaurant reservation online and he wondered why that was the case.
The proof is in the pudding on this point: every dollar of public-sector funds received by these projects was being matched by nearly four dollars in private-sector investment toward buying and installing the systems that generate on-site electricity and use waste-heat created during generation.
For example, John Lynn, a leading healthcare journalist, speculated on how the recent ruling could give health systems an alternative to the expensive practice of buying medical practices to buy loyalty.
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This estimate includes the time it takes people to delete the messages, the cost of buying larger mail servers and storage systems to cope with inboxes flooded with the messages and the cost of having staff unclog networks overloaded by spam.
He soon developed a knack for buying cheap, fixer-upper cable systems, raising quality and prices and plowing the cash flow into more acquisitions.
Satellite radio is easy to use and according to a national survey it is a top feature for customers buying vehicles with new multi-media systems.
The risk to Microsoft lies in seeing its enterprise franchise undermined by mobile, as other operating systems are dominant in this one sphere where people and companies are buying more.
Unlike current systems, Pendo can work in three currencies, so a fund buying Japanese equities on an American market can enter the price in Australian and American dollars and Japanese Yen.
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June 2011, right now, is a great time to be buying shares in the four companies that make smart phone operating systems.
Worse, red-shifting companies might decide to emulate Google, an internet company that cobbles its systems together from large numbers of low-cost machines, rather than buying expensive kit from a single vendor.
The end result has been incessant chatter about buying and building EHR, with no thought about how those systems interact with legacy technologies, how they could be used to create better patient outcomes and whether they support collaboration and new workflows.
Taking that assurance at face value, prime contractor General Dynamics launched a campaign to convince Congress and the Obama Administration that buying a smaller number of the vehicles while upgrading current amphibious systems would be more cost-effective than canceling the program and starting over.
Companies that stop buying PCs from Dell may also curtail spending on Dell servers and storage systems.
Still, Blomkvist said that even with reasonable buying terms with the biggest music labels, after paying taxes and operators for using their systems, Sony Ericsson would hardly profit from selling music.
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But the big Japanese insurers have little interest in buying them, because there are few easy cost-savings from layoffs or integrating their complicated information systems.
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