Word: virtualization
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...Database software: 70% of all packaged business applications worldwide run on it, making it as hard to ignore as Microsoft Windows. Even Oracle's biggest rival, German giant SAP, chooses to use Oracle Database over its IBM and Microsoft-made counterparts. Oracle Database is a huge part of that virtual plumbing system known as back-office software, which helps keep track of payroll, makes sure products leave warehouses on time--and remains mostly invisible to all but the client company's IT department...
...paddles that appear regularly on ER--can shock a racing heart back to a healthy rhythm. But every few months, doctors must check to see if it is operating correctly. This used to mean a visit to a heart-rhythm expert. Now, with Medtronic's dial-up technology, a virtual checkup takes 15 minutes or less. The company expects similar technology to be available for pacemakers--devices that speed up a sluggish heart--by early next year. --By Janice M. Horowitz
...AUTO-MOTION PICTURES ALSO REFLECT newer media. Car films are today's video games. And vice versa. Virtual rides like the Grand Theft Auto games (including Vice City) and the Gran Turismo series have sat on best-of lists. They're also helpful aids to directorial research. John Singleton says he played hours of Turismo while preparing 2 Fast 2 Furious. He put the Nissan Skyline (which isn't sold in the U.S. and had to be imported from Japan) and the Mitsubishi Evo VII in the movie because they're in Turismo. "We wanted to get the cars that...
...policies adopted out of the Leaning Committee’s findings will mean tangible changes in how the University handles sexual assault—including the virtual elimination of the controversial corroboration rule, more extensive resources for sexual assault victims and expansive educational programs for both first-years and upperclass students...
Despite a strong two-victory effort from Evans and virtual dominance on the boards behind junior Rene Paradise and sophomore Anne Osmun—who took first and second on the three-meter board, as well as second and third on the one-meter—the Crimson’s individual accomplishments paled in comparison to the awesome power of the Tigers’ machine...