On Moving Toward Software Rentals

CowboyRobot writes "ACM Queue has an article about the emergence of a service-oriented model of software delivery, supported by the W3C, IBM, HP, and Microsoft. They already have their acronyms down: WSDL (Web Services Description Language), UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration), and WSFL (Web Services Flow Language). The article primarily covers the three phases of negotiating, ending with actual service delivery."

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Paying Microsoft..

[artlu]

I think I would definitely pay microsoft $0.10 for every time I used M$ Word. Similar to website micropayment systems, I think that big company's as well as startups may benefit from per use charges. I know of many stock analysis sites that do something similar. ie: charge you $5 for each analysis you download, or $5 buys you 50 reloads of the site.