For Brazil's big sugar companies the timing is perfect: the credit crunch set off a wave of consolidation in an industry that had been resistant to it.

巴西正值信贷紧缩，一向抵制联合的食糖行业不得不掀起了一波兼并浪潮，这对大型食糖企业来说，是个好机会。

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But how efficient is it to have a big powerful server crunch computations while countless client machines receive its information?

但是，由一台强大的服务器处理计算，同时又有无数客户机接收其信息，这样做究竟是否高效？

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Other industry chiefs, confronted by a similar crunch, regard big mergers as a good way to replenish pipelines and slash costs.

面对类似的问题，行业中的其他总裁认为大型的并购是一种补给产品线及削减成本的很好方式。

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