Vendor consolidation is a major trend that forces customers to consolidate their IT (information technology) landscape, ... They're redrawing their landscape without those smaller vendors who they see as being most at risk.

Technology just means information technology.

The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.

The consummation of this acquisition is expected to effectively unite the resources of two of the largest information technology companies in health and human services. By combining the strengths of Creative Socio-Medics and CMHC Systems, we believe inpatient, outpatient, institutional and community-based systems will view us as a single source for solutions to their IT needs. We are very excited by the opportunities that lie ahead and look forward to serving an expanded community of agencies with proven solutions for all modalities of care.

In economies with less regulation, companies can use information communications technology that link sectors to one another in ways that create joint productivity.

It is about the boundaries between telecom, IT (information technology) and video breaking down ... because video is absolutely fundamental to all these companies ... so what Cisco did makes a huge amount of sense to me.