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LabWare's decisions regarding hardware, operating systems and database platforms are based on a variety of criteria. Chief among them is the notion that our platform choices should improve rather than hamper the customer's position relative to value and risk, and that they should not impose unnecessary constraints or disruption to the customer's business. This means that to the extent possible we have engineered our products to be platform independent. LabWare LIMS adheres to technology standards while at the same time it avoids brand dependencies. By taking this approach, which is a true differentiator within the industry, we believe we have placed our customers in the most advantageous position possible with regard to their technology choices. This strategy also helps to reduce or even eliminate much of the burden on LabWare in the areas of version synchronization and control, SQA testing, and structural validation. That same principal applies to our deployment of web technologies via our zero footprint WebLIMS client and Web Services. Our Configure Once, Deploy Anywhere technology means that a single set of configuration settings is stored in the database and accessed by users in their interface of choice. The LabWare LIMS Client runs on any contemporary Microsoft Internet Explorer or Windows variant. Our web server component may be any J2EE web server, including those available as open source. The database server component may be installed on anything from Windows to UNIX to Linux, and may utilize any relational database from Oracle to SQL Server to DB2. Even within a given operating system or database family, our product is not necessarily reliant on a specific revision or point release level. This puts us in an ideal position to meet our customer's requirements, regardless of their corporate standards, without the added technical and administrative overhead imposed by multiple "products". We believe it also affords our customers a level of technology and investment protection not afforded by other suppliers.