Brazil has another card to play, which software, pharmaceutical and other big American industries may worry about.
The real question: Which software developer will sign a deal with Microsoft next?
The OSS business model, in which software is free but support is paid for, has to be explained to other schools.
Just as important, the platform will host exploits only for known vulnerabilities, not so-called zero day exploits--new attacks for which software companies haven't yet issued fixes.
In the mid-1990s she remembers locking horns with fellow GM engineers over decisions such as which software to use to control robots and conveyors in its factories.
This is an online job market which farms out tasks that humans are good at, but for which software is poorly equipped, like labelling images and transcribing speech.
Which software is the right one for your organization?
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This "application lifecycle management"--or ALM--approach reflects the ways in which software has entered more parts of the company over the past decade, and how non-IT managers must also take on software-project responsibilities.
That could hurt Microsoft as many companies refashion themselves for the era of "cloud" computing, a Google-backed approach in which software is easily accessed online and sold as a subscription product, rather than installed on companies' computers.
In the mid 1990s, he founded Datalogic Software, which creates software to simplify billing and scheduling from home health care agencies in Texas.
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Their joint research and development body, CableLabs, has written specifications for an operating system and chosen a number of software languages in which applications software for the boxes may be written.
The Business Software Alliance (BSA), a nonprofit trade group of which Microsoft is a key member, said it supports the actions which the software giant is taking.
Competitors include small firms such as Farmlogs, a Web startup that focuses on crop data, and software maker Farm Works, as well as John Deere, which has software and Web support for managing crop production and machinery.
BoxTone, which makes software for managing corporate mobile services, recently conducted a survey in which nearly 40% of respondents expected iPad ownership at their companies to increase 20% or more over the next year.
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He offers Cerner, which develops software to deliver information and reduce paperwork in health care.
Phone.com, which sells software that enables cell phones to access the Internet, rang up 891% .
This all follows up the 2009 acquisition of Wind River Systems, which sells software for devices.
He later launched Hoyos International, which wrote software that oil explorers used to track seismic activity.
Wall recently sold Build Forge, which makes software that helps coders compile programs more efficiently, to IBM.
Regulators, the company argued, had no right to determine which features software companies should include in their products.
As well as owning Hotmail, earlier this year it purchased Jump, which writes software for online personal calendars.
And chips designed by ARM, a British firm, dominate the market for application processors, which run software on smart-phones.
The new employees received classroom training first, during which the software was demonstrated.
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Boingo, which provides software and services that connect people to Wi-Fi worldwide, believes it has moved beyond these initial obstacles.
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This summer's crop of 14 startups includes GiveLoop, which makes software that facilitates online donations to charities and political groups.
One was DealerTrack Holdings, which provides software to the automotive retail industry.
Micromuse, which makes software for telecom networks, had gone public a year earlier but without the bang that often accompanies tech stock offerings.
Micromuse, which makes software for telecom networks, had a year earlier gone public, but without the bang that often accompanies tech stock offerings.
On May 1, someone posted the code, which allows software developers to copy content from high-definition discs, to the social news portal Digg.com.
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