There used to be a trend that mobile malware was packages into fake applications that did nothing.

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Increasingly, new software applications are sold not as packages to be installed on computers, but as services hosted on powerful servers that can be reached using a browser.

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Ultimately, better management could set the stage for software applications sold not through big packages but by use of discrete parts of an overall package--much the way IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ), HP and others talk about selling computing not by individual machines, but by how many processors a customer actually uses.

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Oracle Business Online applications, sold through Oracle sales reps as packages that include training and support, can be delivered in as little as five days if they do not include custom components, Oracle said.

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Our clients use other CRM packages and run their businesses on vertical applications suited to their industry.

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