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-**PROJECT DESCRIPTION** The primary goal of the Spring Data GemFire project is to make it easier to build highly scalable Spring-powered applications using [Pivotal GemFire](http://gopivotal.com/pivotal-products/pivotal-data-fabric/pivotal-gemfire) as a distributed data management platform.
+The primary goal of the Spring Data GemFire project is to make it easier to build highly scalable Spring-powered applications using [Pivotal GemFire](http://gopivotal.com/pivotal-products/pivotal-data-fabric/pivotal-gemfire) as a distributed data management platform.
 
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