Given that so much of military equipment is already old and that force transformation will result in many new systems and platforms, now is an opportune time to begin dealing with this problem.
Those are two example of how the mobile operating systems are becoming platforms that connect with other devices.
Will a defence business dominated by systems rather than platforms be more or less conducive to transatlantic partnerships?
Both companies are working to make the solution available for other operating systems and mobile platforms in the future.
Over the last two years we've seen corporate mobility shift from a primarily BlackBerry-centric market to one that encompasses a whole range of devices, operating systems and application platforms.
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And existing antitrust laws can always be brought to bear if any company establishes and then abuses a dominant position in, say, mobile-phone operating systems or advertising platforms something that has not happened yet.
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Other conditions for early take-off include the ready availability of the right kind of software, computing platforms and systems-integration expertise.
Yet successive defense programs have justified reductions in force structure on the grounds that quantitative improvements in platforms, systems, and manpower allow commanders to do the same or even more with less.
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The company delivers free and subscription-based access to millions of songs and hundreds of expert-programmed stations, plus news, sports and talk, on the web, mobile devices, in-car infotainment systems and consumer electronics platforms.
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Since the inception of the two-MRC standard, the United States has invested in a range of platforms, systems, and capabilities that have significantly enhanced its ability to conduct large-scale joint and combined operations.
For several years, criminal authorities have wrestled with challenges caused by communication about illicit activities, from securities fraud to drug dealing to terrorism, through messaging tools in social networks, videogame systems and other digital platforms.
Network Rail has upgraded power supplies and signalling systems and lengthened 41 platforms at 12 stations on the Midland main line north of London to accommodate the new trains which are nearly 270 yards (250m) long.
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You will never really know this through one-dimensional platforms like CRM systems or LinkedIn.
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Nearly four out of 10 (38%) of enterprises expect to support five or more mobile platforms or operating systems.
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Banks are increasingly able to centralise computer systems and to use common platforms.
It brings Europe-wide clout in systems integration which includes such things as developing information systems and e-commerce platforms for corporate clients.
In Mr Howe's vision, platforms based on operating systems are irrelevant.
He believes the auto industry is moving away from historical, purpose built, closed systems to connected, open standards based platforms.
As OnLive looks beyond gaming and expands into new markets and platforms, such as enterprise systems, Juniper Networks will provide OnLive with a new network that will transform the economics and experience of networking for its customers.
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In light of its limited financial resources, then, Russia has out-negotiated the Obama administration, by contriving to set treaty ceilings that it can reach, barely, and that actually allow it to increase its total number of delivery systems, substituting newer, more sophisticated platforms for many relics now in service.
Real-time collaborative information sharing platforms, that are enabled by systems like Socialtext, are speeding knowledge creation and dissemination.
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Software can and does go wrong, but why did the exchange not switch to its backup systems, or try routing orders to other platforms?
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The great challenge is to enable their customers to innovate quickly at the speed of business change, embracing new platforms, without unduly disrupting the systems of record (such as SAP Business Suite) that quite literally hold many organizations together.
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TeraGrid, which is already the world's largest open computer, storage and networking system (exceeded only by the U.S. government's weapons-testing labs, which is "closed, " or isolated inside one institution), uses 16 different computer platforms and runs seven different operating systems.
Most of them are non-Windows operating systems such as Unix that they support on other platforms.
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Meanwhile, Google and Facebook developed systems to help people consume news on the new platforms.
This traditional database platforms, known as relational database management systems (RDBMS) all use a language called SQL (structured query language).
Now that grunge work is conducted by powerful "operations management" software systems developed by businesses such as General Electric Intelligent Platforms in Charlottesville, Va.
Certain environments (critical infrastructure, DoD, the intelligence community) should move to multiple platforms just to increase the number of systems an attacker must have tools to compromise.
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