Besides providing the hardware, Cisco is also in the systems integration business and provides network support.

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Price Waterhouse aims to add hundreds of experts to its Japanese branch to handle a growing consulting practice in computer systems integration, mergers and acquisitions, project finance and international taxation.

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But Motorola was not investing as it should have been in software integration systems that would allow it to retain its role as the system provider of choice.

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