Scientific computing is a much smaller niche market ( in revenue and units shipped ).

The first DECT product to reach the market, Olivetti's Net < sup > 3 </ sup >, was a wireless LAN, and German firms Dosch & Amand and Hoeft & Wessel built niche businesses on the supply of data transmission systems based on DECT.

By the time there was a strong market need for a bus of these speeds and capabilities, the VESA Local Bus and later PCI filled this niche and EISA vanished into obscurity.

There is also a niche market for modifying or " modding " effects.

This has produced a manufacturing sector often focused on the export of niche market and luxury products, that if on one side is less capable to compete on the quantity, on the other side is more capable of facing the competition from emerging economies based on lower labour costs, with higher quality products.

The absence of colour kept the ACE squarely in a niche market of programming enthusiasts.

These Korean and Malaysian-manufactured vehicles offered modern, Japanese developed technology and levels of build quality and standard equipment which Lada could not compete with, and by the turn of the millennium, had completely taken over the market niche that Lada had survived in for over 20 years.

The oldies and classic rock formats have a strong niche market, but as the audience becomes older the station becomes less attractive to advertisers.

The club owners argue that the previous law opened the door for other European nations with relaxed attitudes on cannabis to capitalise on the niche in the market and take the valuable tourist resource.

With these " premium " prices, though, most gamers weren't able to afford the system, so the console was only accessible to a niche market.

While they were viewed as Green Day " acolytes ", critics also found teen pop acts like Britney Spears, the Backstreet Boys, and ' N Sync suitable points of comparison for Blink-182's sound and market niche.

Other companies found a niche market for replacements for legacy PDP-11 processors, disk subsystems, etc.

He realized African Americans were an untapped niche market and that Pepsi stood to gain market share by targeting its advertising directly towards them.

Advanced Squad Leader ( 1985 ) became a niche hobby in and of itself, and Axis and Allies ( 1984 ) was very popular with the mass market audience and Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy Battle ( 1983 ) spawned a long-lasting line popular miniatures games including the successive editions of Warhammer and the science-fantasy Warhammer 40, 000 game.

In 1995, Warner and station owner Tribune Company of Chicago launched The WB Network, finding a niche market in teenagers.

The only way of staying afloat in the shoe market is to establish a presence in niche markets.

Likewise " web-managed " switches are switches which fall in a market niche between unmanaged and managed.

Generally ARJ was less popular than PKZIP, but it did enjoy a niche market during the BBS era and in the warez scene.

On the web site, Hand Made in America, they look at agritourism as a "... niche market not only assists communities with solutions to help diversify their economic base, but it also helps our regional urban centers and increasingly suburban populations to understand the important role that farming and rural life plays in our history, by highlighting the need for it in our contemporary society.

The PDA, which was once a niche market, had become a global horizontal marketplace where it was difficult for Psion to compete.

Tourism targets the niche eco-tourism market, capitalizing on Madagascar's unique biodiversity, unspoiled natural habitats, national parks and lemur species.

The Liberty BASIC dialect, and IDE, have developed a market niche for introductory and intermediate programmers who are learning the skills of programming, though it has been less widely adopted as a commercial publishing product.

Restaurants ( along with Chinese laundries ) provided an ethnic niche for small businesses at a time when the Chinese people were excluded from most jobs in the wage economy by ethnic discrimination or lack of language fluency.

Aon Re Global handles reinsurance brokerage services for aviation, marine, energy, professional liability, and other niche and specialty business lines.

From the 4th century Christianization of the Roman Empire onwards such shrines, or the framework enclosing them, are often called by the Biblical term tabernacle, which becomes extended to any elaborated framework for a niche, window or picture.

There were two styles dominating the Dutch hip hop landscape: Extince, known for his easy flows, catchy songs and funky tunes, while hardcore performers like Westklan and Osdorp Posse found their own niche group of fans.

Although BBSing survives only as a niche hobby in most parts of the world, it is still an extremely popular form of communication for Taiwanese youth ( see PTT Bulletin Board System ).

Front-engined buses still persist for niche markets such as American school buses, some minibuses, and buses in less developed countries, which may be derived from truck chassis, rather than purpose-built bus designs.

One might note, however, that what is assumed to be a niche for the Torah scroll in the building probably originally built as a Judeo-Christian synagogue between AD 70 and AD 135 on the traditional site of the Cenacle or upper room of the Last Supper and now identified as the site of the King David's Tomb is oriented not towards the Temple Mount, but towards the site of the Holy Sepulchre, which would seem to indicate that the Christian community that had built it had already began to transfer many of the religious traditions originally associated with the Temple to the sites they associated with Christ's death and resurrection ( such as the burial place of Adam and the centre of the world ).

By the early 1990s, however, relational systems were dominant for all large-scale data processing applications, and they remain dominant today ( 2012 ) except in niche areas.

However, the timing of the availability of DECT, in the mid-1990s, was too early to find wide application for wireless data outside niche industrial applications.

The Hutchinsonian niche is defined more technically as a " Euclidean hyperspace whose dimensions are defined as environmental variables and whose size is a function of the number of values that the environmental values may assume for which an organism has positive fitness.

" The film holds a rare niche in Hollywood history as having been completed and slated for release in 1945, then withdrawn and substantially re-edited with new, juiced up scenes added to better exploit the box office chemistry that shined between Bogie and Bacall in To Have and Have Not and the notoriety of their personal relationship.

These salamanders are much larger than any others in their endemic range, they employ an “ unusual ” means of respiration ( which involves cutaneous gas exchange through capillaries found in their dorsoventral folds ), and they fill a particular niche — both as a predator and prey — in their ecosystem which either they or their ancestors have occupied for around 65 million years.

Following the launch of ADSL in 2003, the importance of ISDN for data transfer began to decrease and is today limited to niche business applications with point-to-point requirements.

Although remaining in development, and having attained a limited success in the niche of high-end computing, Intel had originally hoped to make Itanium a replacement for the original x86 architecture.

Kumquats are also being used by chefs to create a niche for their desserts and are common in European countries.

As a compound, nickel has a number of niche chemical manufacturing uses, such as a catalyst for hydrogenation.

A niche application of plotters is in creating tactile images for visually handicapped people on special thermal cell paper.

The mainstream academic view has been that pankration was the product of the development of archaic Greek society of the seventh century BC, whereby, as the need for expression in violent sport increased, pankration filled a niche of " total contest " that neither boxing or wrestling could.

While classified as indie rock due to their relatively small niche in Southern California, the band's musical style has also been described as alternative country music.

Recycler. com is Southern California ’ s vast online classified advertisements community of buyers and sellers, with thousands of local and niche, free and paid ads ( used cars, trucks, SUVs, vans, and new vehicles, along with merchandise, pets, electronics and appliances, employment, real estate and anything else ) – which operates with the Recycler classifieds print publication ( 4 editions covering all of Southern California ) and partnered with many other publications across California and the country.