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To: A.L. Reagan who wrote (29255)	3/21/2000 7:34:00 PM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 64865

A. L. - this "provisioning" model is likely to be another fairly standard model - even SUNW is working up a version, although theirs is arranged around buying the base system but just paying for the power you are actually using, a kind of "pay as you go" approach. There are also schemes around lease and rent with the same basis - the vendor holds the hardware and sells capacity in one form or another. The fact that the hardware is fungible for many applications helps to make the model work and also keeps the hardware vendor from holding the bag - new, higher performance or more dense hardware goes into established companies that are in the steep part of the growth curve, and last year's servers still work just fine for companies just getting started.