In his previous company, Valence Research, Bain developed a distributed Web load-balancing software solution that was acquired by Microsoft and is now called Network Load Balancing within the Windows Server operating system.

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The rubber tracks (3) allow the Viking to travel over soft terrain such as desert, snow or mud because its load is evenly distributed over all four tracks, all of which are driven.

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Antieri plans to establish a team focused on "deployment services" that will load new handsets with applications and oversee the devices after they've been distributed.

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