With their Force.com platform, business applications can be built and run "in the cloud."

利用他们的平台Force.com，商业应用可以“在云中”建立和运行。

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Well, now there is a consumer collaboration tool just like BrightIdea's. In fact it's built upon the company's platform.

现在，又有一个类似BrightIdea的消费者协作产品，而事实上，他是构建于公司平台之上的。

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Ann: MPS itself is built on the IntelliJ platform, and it serves, in turn, as a platform for creating other tools.

Ann： MPS本身就是构建在IntelliJ平台之上的，反过来它又可以作为平台创建其他工具。

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Microsoft has a long history of delivering platforms and services to the automotive market, including in-car infotainment systems built on the Windows Embedded Automotive platform, in-car mapping services with Bing and the Microsoft Tellme voice application, and many other consumer solutions.

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To extract Malampaya's gas, Shell will put down nine undersea wells - five in 2002 and four in 2009 - plus a production platform being built in Singapore and Subic.

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To keep things in perspective, startups are easier now than they have ever been: Servers on demand (EC2, Heroku, Linode) and rapid development technologies (Rails, Django) make it possible to develop a custom-built online platform in a relatively short time.

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