With this partnership, Telmap, an Intel company, will utilize TomTom content to enhance its products and services, including mobile navigation apps distributed via application stores and mobile operators worldwide.

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Linux and much of its application software is written and distributed by people who understand the value of open source.

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Apple released a statement today confirming this, but here's where it gets interesting: the company says that "the developer of this application added inappropriate content directly from their server after the application had been approved and distributed" -- in other words, the guy pulled a bait-and-switch on Apple by serving different content to his app after it had been approved using more PG-rated content.

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Often an end user application can be supported by several workloads distributed across servers.

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Often an end-user application can be supported by several workloads distributed across servers.

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And rather than envision some sort of uber developer, who understands big data, web performance optimization, application middleware, and fault tolerance in a massively distributed environment, we need operations specialists on the development teams.

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Part of the plan to create this better product experience involves opening up SAP to lighter-weight protocols that are more forgiving of distributed applications, including REST and OData, giving customers the freedom to quickly decide an application would be better run as a service, in the cloud, or exposed through a Facebook widget.

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