That help manage the deployment of enterprise-grade service-oriented data centers. These include innovations in security, storage, real-time resource provisioning and systems management.

Breakthrough enabling platforms in data management (especially the extraction of information from unstructured data) and application development.

Next-generation internet-enabled businesses that take advantage of a mature global Internet infrastructure, that build upon technology-driven efficient business models, and that exhibit low distribution friction costs and very high scalability.

Which is naturally becoming a preferred delivery paradigm, as it more closely ties the price of the software to the value actually received by customers.

Business models, which make many sophisticated technologies broadly available, with particular focus on technologies that will enable tomorrow’s on-demand business models through the open source paradigm.