A lack of government and private resources available for financing large infrastructure projects has stalled the estimated $150 to $500 billion project of rewiring America to create the Information Superhighway.
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Also, as this capital shortage has been felt across the globe, industrialized governments worldwide have been unable to assist in funding the creation of an Information Superhighway in their countries.
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The computing landscape in 2003 is a web of LANs, supporting enterprise-specific client-server architectures. The action over the last several years has been in adding value through bridges and routers, and in improving CPE (customer premises equipment). While integration of all of these systems remains a business, growth of this market has slowed with the economies of the developed nations.
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The software development process is very similar to the early 90's. The majority of application development is done using 4GLs. However, to create seamless applications across a business organization still requires complex technical skills. Thus, the cost of application development has not been substantially reduced over the past 10 years.
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