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people can work with each other more effi ciently and eff ectively. Users
can submit a task, such as word processing, to the service provider with-
out actually possessing the software or hardware. e user’s computer,
which serves as a basic display terminal connected to the Internet, may
contain very little software or data. Because the cloud is the underlying
delivery mechanism, cloud-based applications and services can support
any type of software application or service in use today.
Mobility and Collaboration
With the power of mobility that has been put in everyone’s hands in what
we oddly still call ...