"We're really gearing ourselves for the medium-size corporations, smaller companies and entrepreneurs," Mr. Moss said.
"The amount of money that we're talking about here is real money to medium-sized corporations," said Warren.
It is important for small and medium-sized corporations to collaborate in networks in order to develop capacity, capability, and competence to perform product development and become suppliers of complete systems.
Small and medium-sized corporations, the backbone of the Japanese economy, became insolvent, the country's unemployment rate increased dramatically, and the number of suicides hit 30,000 a year and has not declined since.
Jefferies Group Inc. said yesterday that it would separate its two units, Investment Technology Group Inc., which provides equity trading and research services, and Jefferies & Company, an investment bank serving small to medium-sized corporations, into separate companies.
Called R/3, it allowed medium-sized corporations to implement SAP's massive suite of enterprise-resource planning (ERP) software, which manages a firm's inner workings, from its accounts to its supply chain.
In comparing the yearly earnings of tens of thousands of companies — whose tax returns the IRS periodically releases to researchers in aggregate, anonymized form — they found evidence that the owners of small-to-medium-sized corporations would often keep some of their earnings in the company rather than taking the money home as salary.
They include reversing the burden of proof; establishing a tribunal that would take the financial sting out of libel; preventing large and medium-sized corporations from suing; protecting service providers from the chilling effect of takedown notices; and stemming the tide of libel tourism.
Mr. Rossotti spent more than $200 million on advice from the Booz Allen Hamilton consulting firm to reorganize the I.R.S. around four types of taxpayers -- large and medium-size corporations, small businesses and the self employed, wage-earning individuals and tax-exempt entities.
In other words, the financial structure of small- and medium-sized corporations deeply depends on the financial sector.
