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Smokey the Bear, Meet Your Russian Cousin and Eat Your Heart Out

2015-06-18 13:21:38| Grocery - Topix.net

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Oracle, Microsoft face Russian hurdles

2015-06-17 12:02:35| IT Services - Topix.net

Russian companies are increasingly buying homegrown software to avoid international sanctions, posing a challenge to the likes of Microsoft and Oracle in the country's $3 billion local market. OAO Sberbank's life insurer in February started an online service running local operating system Rosa-Linux using an open-source PostgreSQL database, skipping alternatives from Microsoft, Oracle and International Business Machines.

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Most Russian car plants are uncompetitive, AvtoVAZ CEO Andersson says

2015-06-15 08:39:39| Automakers - Topix.net

Most vehicle assembly plants in Russia are not cost competitive because they are not producing enough vehicles, said Bo Andersson, who is CEO of Russia's largest carmaker, AvtoVAZ. Among the plants Andersson says are not producing enough to make money are Ford and its local partner Soller's three factories in the country as well as General Motors' two factories.

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