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The leading networking hardware providers include

A) Dell,HP/Compaq,and IBM.
B) Cisco,Lucent,and Nortel.
C) Seagate,Maxtor,and Western Digital.
D) IBM,Oracle,and Sun.

E) B) and D)
F) B) and C)

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Implementing new infrastructure requires significant ________ in business processes and procedures,training and education,and software integration.

A) value chain
B) reductions
C) changes
D) time

E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

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Increasingly,software is downloadable from the Internet and composed of interchangeable components that integrate freely with other applications on the Internet.Individual users and entire companies mix and match these software components to create their own customized applications and to share information with others.The resulting software applications are called ________.

________ services store and manage corporate data and provide capabilities for analyzing the data.

Multi-touch gestures are ________ to remember than commands because they are based on ingrained human movements that do not have to be learned.

Briefly explain why corporations are increasingly interested in using Unix or Linux for their operating system.

Single-touch interfaces are potentially more versatile than multi-touch interfaces.

The university purchased a mainframe some years ago when it was part of the mainframe era.Today,mainframes ________.

A client computer networked to a server computer,with processing split between the two types of machines,is called a(n) :

________ applies the resources of many computers in a network to a single problem.

Interpretations of Moore's law assert that:

Implementing new infrastructure requires significant changes in business processes and procedures,training and education,and software integration.

Jean's Jewellery has installed an information system to grade their diamonds and give an appraised value to each diamond.They purchased this software from a software distributor.This is an example of purchasing a ________.

Which type of software is created and updated by a worldwide community of programmers and available for free?

As the Internet developed into a trusted communications environment,more and more business firms began using the ________ networking standard to tie their disparate networks together.

Digital management services store and manage corporate data and provide capabilities for analyzing the data.

At first using the DOS operating system,a text-based command language,and later the Microsoft Windows operating system,the ________ computer (Windows operating system software on a computer with an Intel microprocessor)became the standard desktop personal computer.

Hardware and software acquisition costs account for about ________ percent of TCO.

Grid computing involves connecting geographically remote computers into a single network to create a virtual supercomputer by combining the computational power of all computers on the grid.

Cam's Cooling Inc.has found a great market for their services.They are installing cooling systems in firms who are using many network servers.These many servers are hard to keep cool and they use an enormous amount of electricity.Firms are trying to find ways to reduce the cost of electricity and the heat that having many servers creates.One good solution to the problem that lets firms maintain the same level of productivity is ________.