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DEFINITION: Software is a general term for the various kinds of programs used to operate computers and related devices. (The term hardware describes the physical aspects of computers and related devices.)

Software can be thought of as the variable part of a computer and hardware the invariable part. Software is often divided into application software (programs  … 
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IBM X-Architecture Technology: A Story of Innovation for x86-Based Servers
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 16 May 2008 | Published: 01 Mar 2007
SUMMARY: In this white paper, you'll see how IBM helped elevate x86 servers to mission critical roles by incorporating X-Architecture® technologies.

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The CRM Value Proposition
sponsored by Touchtone Corporation
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 16 May 2008 | Published: 01 May 2008
SUMMARY: A CRM can reduce costs by automating some tasks currently performed manually, accelerating cash flows and eliminating some unproductive sales activity.

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The Online Shadow Economy: A Billion Dollar Market for Malware Authors
sponsored by MessageLabs
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 16 May 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
SUMMARY: The shadow economy has all the attributes of a traditional economy - division of labor, price competition, marketing and so on - accelerated to Internet speed and carried out online.

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Bringing the Power of Web 2.0 to the Enterprise
sponsored by Open Text Corporation
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 14 May 2008 | Published: 09 May 2008
SUMMARY: The key to Enterprise 2.0 is to bring the worlds of ECM and Web 2.0 together, so that companies can gain the best of both.

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A Day in a Low Carbon Life: What Might It Be like to Lead a Business in 2012?
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 14 May 2008 | Published: 01 May 2008
SUMMARY: This paper describes a day in the life of a fictional Chief Executive Officer, preparing to face market analysts in 2012.

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A Global Sales Force Spread over Five Continents Becomes More Effective with Cameleon
sponsored by ACCESS COMMERCE
CASE STUDY:   Posted: 13 May 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
SUMMARY: Cameleon helped the SDMO Industries sales organization become more effective and productive, and has provided a solid foundation to support future growth.

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Optimizing the Lead-to-Order Process
sponsored by ACCESS COMMERCE
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 13 May 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
SUMMARY: This paper is written specifically for non-IT executives, with the primary objectives to describe the LTO process and how software provides value to these business process improvements.

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Evaluation Guide: Is Your SCM Tool Ready for Agile?
sponsored by AccuRev
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 12 May 2008 | Published: 09 May 2008
SUMMARY: In this paper, we identify fifteen key feature areas and five related use cases for selecting an SCM tool that is appropriate for agile software development.

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Message and Document Classification - Advantages for US DoD
sponsored by Titus Labs
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 10 May 2008 | Published: 01 Apr 2008
SUMMARY: Titus Labs has developed a complete family of classification solutions for Microsoft Outlook email and Microsoft Office documents, these message and document classification tools offer many advantages which are outlined in this paper.

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Dow Corning Uses Classification Labels to Help Protect Intellectual Property
sponsored by Titus Labs
CASE STUDY:   Posted: 10 May 2008 | Published: 10 May 2008
SUMMARY: As part of an overall IP protection program, Dow Corning turned to Titus Labs Message Classification™ and Document Classification™ software.

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SOFTWARE DEFINITION (continued): …  that do work users are directly interested in) and system software (which includes operating systems and any program that supports application software). The term middleware is sometimes used to describe programming that mediates between application and system software or between two different kinds of application software (for example, sending a remote work request from an application in a computer that has one kind of operating system to an application in a computer with a different operating system).

An additional and difficult-to-classify category … 
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