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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He admitted that the computers were not suitable for people wanting to use traditional software packages such as Photoshop and Microsoft Office.

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