In South Africa, the Parliament passed a resolution that public schools must use open-source software, as did a few states in Brazil.
Students perceived our in-house developed system much more positively than the commercial software (as did we).
Given the small number of interviews, the transcriptions were assessed by themes, without the use of a coding system or software, as done in previous transport studies [28, 66].
But that comes from the Google strategy of giving the operating system away for free, rather than trying to profit from the sales of handsets (as Apple does), or from the license fee for the software (as Microsoft does, in a strategy that saw it doomed to irrelevance in the mobile age).
There is no one supplier that can meet all of a customer's hardware and software needs, as did the IBM of yore.
Back then, I.B.M. was reaping enormous profits from its virtual monopoly in mainframe hardware and software, as Microsoft does today from its dominant positions in personal-computer operating systems and personal-productivity software like word processing and spreadsheets.
On the computer side, Creative uses the same MediaSource server/organizer software as it does for its portables, so the Wireless Music can share a library and playlists with a Creative carry-around device.
Inparanoid has an important advantage over phylogenetic tree reconstruction software, as it does not require a multiple alignment of sequences but creates a distance matrix of the local pairwise alignments.
Business card scanners exist, as does software that will actually read a paper business card and pick out the information on it.
