In the green room, Rossellini said to me, "My father is trying to figure out, how do you integrate a big Swede that doesn't speak Italian, blond, blue eyes?" He was a neorealist director, and his style, not to mention Bergman's, required naturalism.
There is no evidence indicating such a move is in the works, but a potential nightmare scenario for IBM and HP would involve Dell buying and successfully integrating a big consultancy.
All these fields of massive investment and radical innovation transform our reality in such a profound way that every aspect of our lives will soon be integrated into a big global digital "network" which is already, for the first time in human history, enabling the creation of a constantly interconnected global brain.
Contained within each of the responses, one could sense the struggles of integrating with a "big company" (my quotes).
Based on the biological ontology, corresponding massive biological instance entities are integrated into a big linked biological knowledge network, which acts as the data model of the reasoning framework.
After all, when one company acquires another, it's usually purchasing a finished product, often to integrate into a bigger picture.
His job, he adds, was "to go around Europe and the Mediterranean area in order to sell this innovation, the capacity to integrate an ASIC instead of the big electronic board".
Also, two input power-sources can be integrated into a bigger power source via the dual energy-integration mechanism, thus resulting in twice the output energy and obtaining the necessary tractive power.
One reason that other Internet companies have sold out -- beyond the financial incentives -- has been their executives' notion that integrating into a bigger company can give them access to a broader set of customers.
Microsoft's purchase of Yammer, you can imagine, will likely (hopefully) be integrated into a bigger collaboration suite for businesses; and similarly you can see Google edging in a converged direction with its cloud services, too.
Mr. Wennemer now faces the challenge of integrating a company almost as big as his own at a time when such transformational deals are out of favor.
