This federal customer change will, in turn, will favor the use of Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPAs) such as those provided by the General Services Administration (GSA) for cloud computing.

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According to GSA Portfolio Management Division Director Bill Lewis this lengthier than expected process will finally let infrastructure-as-a-service blanket purchase agreement awardees start selling their cloud services from the Apps.gov cloud computing website.

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Interestingly, analysts are theorizing that the DRM-era may actually be winding down in favor of "blanket licensing, " which was cast aside just years ago in favor of the "per purchase" approach.

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