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Title	Outsourcing the middleware layer
Type	Opinion
Source	ITworld.com 09/11/2006
Summary	Apparently (I am too young to remember) photocopier machines were greeted with suspicion in some quarters when they were first introduced. How can you know that the machine has made a perfect copy of your vital document? I'm told by someone who remembers those days that he used to proof read the copies coming off the photocopier to check for accuracy. continue

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