"... In PAGE 13: ... These characteristics enable new business processes and products in the music industry. Table2 outlines how these characteristics impact the players in the music industry value chain. 3.... ..."

"... In PAGE 3: ...able 16: Facilitators of Business-IT strategy Alignment ...............................................................................77 Table17 : Enablers and Inhibitors of Business-IT Alignment.... In PAGE 77: ... I/T to suit the generation of required information products and services 5. Extensive interaction between business and IS/T staff Luftman and Brier (1999) identify enablers and inhibitors in the achievement of business-IT alignment, ranked by order of importance ( Table17 ), which remain consistent over the five years prior to this article. It is noticeable that the same set of topics, namely executive support, understanding the business, IT-business relations, and leadership, show up in both list (Luftman, Brier, 1999).... ..."

"... In PAGE 13: ... In section 2 we conjectured that bus bandwidth is not a limitation in the architecture proposed. Table2 presents the measurements for the percentage of time that the bus is busy for machines with 4, 8 and 16 processors, assuming that bus bandwidth is the same as that of local memory. These measures include the arbitration time and the token broadcasting time.... ..."

"... In PAGE 19: ... Also, the positive interaction of the maquila dummies with machinery suppliers and competitors implies that they are able to extract a high information from these meetings. Table6 has a specification similar to that in table 5, but consolidates the total numbers of meetings per year into two categories: Associations and Business Contacts. It confirms that business contacts have a higher payoff.... ..."

"... In PAGE 26: ...Table5 shows the results of this decomposition using computer capital accumulation ef- fects from our preferred obsolescence model. Computer capital accumulation and computer sector TFP growth together account for 1.... ..."

"... In PAGE 7: ...2 Information sharing Over the years information sharing between Tech Data and Aces Direct has increased considerably, enabled by information systems with increasing functionality and linkages between both partners. ISV, ISC, and DSIS (see Table3 ) show more or less similar values and increases for 2004 and 2006 for Tech Data and Aces Direct. Note that the DSIS score is higher than ISV and ISC, because of the (almost ideal) sharing symmetry.... In PAGE 8: ...11 and + 0.09, Table3 ). The order sizes between Aces Direct and Tech Data remained relatively stable (slight order size decrease) over the past couple of years, but the total number of orders increased substantially (x 8 in 5 years).... In PAGE 8: ...56 and 0.65 in 2004 and 2006, Table3 ). The end-user market is becoming more and more transparent (open discovery of prices and product qualities) resulting in lower end-user prices.... ..."

"... In PAGE 2: ... In addition, those two types of standards are also different on other aspects, such as involved processes, scope of forthcoming standards and intellectual property rights (IPR) issues. We summarize features that contribute to the uniqueness of e-business standards in Table1 and discuss each of them in detail in this subsection. There are two key features, which distinguish e- business standards from IT product standards and help to explain why the SDO is a good mechanism for e- business standards development.... ..."

"... In PAGE 16: ... There are no independent developer communities, maintained by the companies, except for Red Flag, SWL and Co-create while a developer community is usually the key stimulating the development and diffusion of open source. Table6 also shows information related to the business models of the analyzed companies. In general, these companies operate mainly in Linux-related business.... In PAGE 16: ... Their main partners or investors are foreign firms, including IBM, HP, Intel or Sybase, which demonstrates the importance of software market globalization and of external technology sources. Table6 also revealed that the government is a very active customer for Chinese Linux companies. Apart from the government, educational organizations also play a very important role, promoting and diffusing the technology among users and practitioners in universities, high schools and other educational organizations.... ..."

"... In PAGE 2: ...ser goal, the goal of the actor (i.e., a buyer) trying to get work (primary task) done. The buyer is therefore called the primary actor of the use case. The primary task Pro- cess the request for quote (use case 1) includes as a subfunction use case 2 ( Proc- ess product item ) which is presented in Table2 . A subfunction is a step in a scenario that is below the main level of interest of the primary actor.... In PAGE 2: ... The goal of a subfunction, which is a subgoal of some user goal, is therefore assigned to the actor in focus. For example, as Table2 shows, the goal to expect bidding of the product item to be de- cided of the subfunction Process product item has been assigned to the seller. The last use case mentioned includes the main, positive scenario for satisfying its goal and one extension scenario for the case when the product item in the quantity requested is... ..."