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| | SAP, HP Offer Hosted ERP for Midsize Companies |
 | | The service will give midsize companies access to SAP applications that "cover everything from supply ordering to warehousing and logistics to their core financial management applications," Dever said. |
 | | However, Dever stressed that the joint offering is "not a subscription service offering as some people have suggested." Customers will pay for and own application licenses and keep control of their own corporate data, he said, rather than give control of the application and data to the hosting service. |
 | | The hosted program will be important to midsize companies that "have got to compete against larger companies that are leaders in the industry" or that are suppliers and contractors to industry-leading companies, such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Boeing Co. or General Motors Corp. |
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