Forget software on CD-Rom, it's the Web, stupid: "The trend is big, gaining momentum and large companies are embracing it ever rapidly... Call it software services, and it's at the heart of what not only Benioff and Salesforce.com are doing, but also Ellison and Oracle, and even PC software giant Microsoft Corp. and its chairman Bill Gates.... [Salesforce.com] charges $50 per month per user and claims that more than 20,000 organisations use its service. Benioff [of Sales.com] adds that his firm has more than 1,100 paying customers and that his company has inked deals with Yahoo! Inc. and DoubleClick to be the providers of online salesforce automation for the Web portal and online advertising company." I really like to see that people seem to be making money in this market -- and getting largish companies to feel comfortable with outside-the-firewall apps.