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To: MikeM54321 who wrote (9188)	11/19/2000 5:05:01 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

So it incorporates some elements of the ASP model, too: "The customer pays about $2 per session to use Microsoft Office 2000, Microsoft Works Suite 2001 or Microsoft Encarta 2001." I suppose that the next step, if they don't already do this, is to store customers' files on centralized servers. About five years ago someone in my neighborhood opened a cafe in a heavily trafficked shopping section. It lasted about two years, with usage dwindling constantly over its lifetime. The problem was, I believe, they only had a limited number of PCs and couldn't recover their initial costs for IT and lighting/rent in a timely manner, so they had to charge rates that were too high. In the cafe that you visited did they supply "house" PCs (how about MACs?), or did users plug in their own laptops (you mentioned "keyboards", and I didn't know what to make of that), or both?