Rather than talking about backward-compatibility, enterprise now has to embrace forward-compatibility, designing systems based on new technology to meet evolving user needs and creating customer value.

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It is also apparent that the two companies have been working hard to make sure the new network build will result in complete compatibility between the two systems.

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The SBDC program not only aided small businesses in assessing systems for year-2000 compatibility, but it also addressed the issue of carefully documenting all remediation efforts, an area on which smaller businesses were not focusing.

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