And over the next year - as LinkedIn adds third party applications to its platform and adds an iPhone app and grows its markets in Latin American and Asia - relationships will matter more and more.

在未来的一年，随着LinkedIn在其平台引入第三方应用软件，添加iPhone应用并在拉丁美洲和亚洲开拓市场，关系将会变得越来越重要。

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These benefits have encouraged manufacturing firms to form strategic relationships with external, or third-party, service providers.

着眼上述益处，制造商与外部（第三方）服务供应商，形成战略合作关系。

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Sundararajan says organizations that have previously outsourced IT functions hold an advantage because they have experience in managing third-party relationships.

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First, it has in Bernard Stolar, the president of Sega of America, a seasoned industry executive who hammered out third-party software relationships for the PlayStation during his tenure at Sony.

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The PlayStation was technologically impressive, with its ability to splash over 300, 000 polygons on a television screen in a single second. (Nearly all videogame graphics are composed of polygons so "polygons per second" is a rough and ready measure of a machine's power.) Perhaps more important, Sony carefully forged and nurtured good relationships with third-party software developers, ensuring a steady supply of great games for its system.

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