But in less than a year, Dell has become the eighth-largest vendor - No. 4 in Hong Kong.
Clearly, any confidentiality agreement should specify that the vendor has no claim on your idea--but such protection doesn't last forever.
Customer experience expectations evolve rapidly in response to variables unrelated to and over which the vendor has no control or prescient knowledge.
No vendor creates a solution for clinicians without including clinicians in the design and no large system invests millions of dollars in a solution without clinicians being involved.
But no vendor had built the right solution, and few publishers have the time or resources to do it on their own.
Currently, there is no vendor capable of delivering a full platform, nor are any companies ready to deploy such a platform across the enterprise.
Again, aside from Samsung, no other vendor is increasing its market share or posing a threat to the iPhone.
No other vendor is offering as much functionality in one place (Oracle sells ERP, HCM, Sales and Marketing, now social and soon platform).
"The bottom line is that if a vendor is paying New York residents to actively solicit business in this state, there is no reason why that vendor should not shoulder the appropriate tax burden, " Lippman wrote.
No other smartphone vendor, from Apple to ZTE to Motorola to Nokia, make that high a proportion of components and assemble them into their own phones.
Chinese phone maker Huawei climbed to the No.3 smartphone vendor spot in the final quarter of 2012.
Alas, there's no local, artisanal vendor option when it comes to needles and seam rippers, says owner Keri Cavanaugh, who has a master's in curation and actually worked at a museum in her former life.
His organization had spent a lot of money on old technology and while happy with it, he was being forced to adopt a new platform because the product vendor was moving on, leaving no support for the old system.
People are taking shelter under nearly every inch of overhang, awning and vendor tent, even if they have no interest in buying officially licensed items.
Quill, which was decided in those long ago days of yore (1992), before the internet had become pervasive, held that a state could not force a vendor to collect sales tax if there was no physical presence in the state.
"There is no Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval that says this vendor does good, secure cloud computing, " Parenty told CNN.
It has no outside shareholders -- unlike almost every large fund vendor, other than the Vanguard Group.
Not that there is anything wrong with OSS, I have no beef against them even though i work for a proprietary vendor.
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But for now, if a company hands its information technology infrastructure to a vendor like Amazon, it's largely locked in Amazon's proprietary cloud, with no easy way to move its virtual IT infrastructure to another company's service or back into its data center.
Samsung Electronics Company is the No. 1 smartphone provider worldwide, based upon reported shipments, according to Strategy Analytics Global Smartphone Vendor Market Share by Region: Q2 2012.
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