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Edmund Hain, Managing Director, Business Consulting Network International

San Francisco, May 25, 2011

The investment cycle that began in the final years of the last millennium—driven by local installations of e-business and especially ERP software with high maintenance, operating and upgrade costs—is drawing to a close. The end of this cycle coincides with the emergence of the technological potential of cloud computing.

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