Currently, there are two main methods for buying software: retail and online.

现今，存在着两种购买软件的方法：零售和网购。

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Smart people find new ways to exercise their brains that don't involve buying software or taking expensive workshops, "he said."

聪明人不需要购买软件或是加入昂贵的研究讲习会，他们自己能找到新方法来锻炼大脑。

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The point to Deep Interoperability is that at some point in the maturation of the marketplace, customers stop buying software that isn't fully interoperable.

深度互操作的意义在于，当市场成熟到某种程度时，用户将不再购买不能提供完全互操作的软件。

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Apotheker, the former head of SAP, indicated the company would be buying software companies specializing in products for cloud computing, for example.

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Most of the time, companies buying software are relieved to have an attentive third party who is responsible for making an implementation work.

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So far Oracle has shown that it can make money by buying software firms, getting rid of overlapping products and unnecessary overheads, but otherwise leaving them much as they were.

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