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Virtualization In The Hot Seat

By Mario Morejon, ChannelWeb
10:41 AM EDT Fri. Aug. 10, 2007

Customers are grappling with the huge capital investments required to engage in software development, a necessary evil if they hope to stay on top of the competition. Moreover, distribution of systems and of the software-development process itself make applications expensive to maintain.

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