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To: iansmith@cc.gatech.edu, tom.rodriguez@eng.sun.com, mynatt@parc.xerox.com,
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Subject: Software rental through ISPs
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I think this is pretty interesting. I've been hearing about the
"metered software billing" thing for a while, but it looks like it may
be about here. The article even makes it sound pretty compelling. :-)
Lotus is signing up ISPs to rent Java applications to their customers
who don't need to buy the app, but just want it for a short time to
collaborate with others.
http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?970131.wkona.htm
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