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"The decade of the 1990s was notable for many significant occurrences in many different areas of information technology: client/server computing; the evolution of the Internet from an academic and research network into the foundation of e-commerce and e-business; the growth of business intelligence and data warehousing; the widespread adoption of packaged software for enterprise applications, call center management, and sales force automation; and many other advances that have made information technology, circa 2000, exponentially more pervasive in business and society than only a decade earlier."