The surprisingly weak results are pushing enterprise software and hardware stocks lower after hours, and could weight heavily on the group on Wednesday.

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The growth in North America is particularly startling given how weak results have been from other major players in enterprise computing.

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The Eastern District's so-called rocket docket "gives defendants little opportunity to engage in discovery that might invalidate weak patents, " complains legal scholar Theodore Frank in an American Enterprise Institute paper.

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And as the economy becomes more fragmented and as old industry and old enterprises decline, a more fluid form of enterprise operating system will thrive only if we skill-up in the business of developing and capitalising on weak ties.

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