The goal of a business application should be to provide a business advantage against the competition, not to be portable: Portability is a secondary goal.

商业应用程序的目标应该是提供对抗竞争者的商业优势，而非可移植性。 可移植性是一个次要目标。

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The new messaging engine takes full advantage of the clustering and load-balancing features of the application server.

新的消息传递引擎充分利用了应用程序服务器的集群以及负载平衡的特性。

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However, the advantage of designing a stateless application is that horizontal scaling is easily achieved.

不过，设计无状态应用程序的优势在于，可以非常容易地实现水平扩展。

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Other games will roll out as part of the application as well, including features that take advantage of the new Facebook timeline feature and a trivia challenge, all of which are intended to engage fans until the premiere episode of the new series on January 27th.

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But, as soon as the use of the software crosses from shared application infrastructure to proprietary advantage, OpenGamma must someone agree not to share that knowledge.

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The increasing popularity of the OpenTable.com website among diners and the added advantage of being able to make reservations using the OpenTable application for mobile phones will boost the number of diners booking tables on OpenTable in the future.

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