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Technology is an investment.
You don't throw investments away. Using the software, PCs can access a mainframe's database, use it in a Windows application, and then transmit the information back to the mainframe. While this type of interaction was possible before, the Fusion software makes it both speedy and seamless, enabling PCs to transfer huge blocks of data back and forth. For now, most of it is not really related to business. It is cultural and academic discussion groups, pornography and politics.