If they know they are going to be focused on the mainstream business end-user, not on the IT geeks, the way they are going to have to test the product is going to be different.

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So while big companies like HP are "excited" about the possibility of putting small PCs in America's homes, we think they're going to have to do some serious revamping (and possibily a bit of innovating, too) before they're going to be able to cannibalize their own laptop business and convince the end-user that small and chic is de rigueur.

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The sensible thing, in my view, would be to end this user-fee proposal once and for all, so all these business people can get back to work and be productive, and the government can find something more worthwhile to do.

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This task is so complicated that it requires an ISstaff member to register each end-user machine, says James Mascaro, network architect for Xcelerate, an e-business consultancy in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

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