Instead of relying on electronic distributors, Smith approaches second- and third-tier Web sites that offer free games and gimmicks, paying them a fee (depending on the number of different visitors).
During the demonstration of RAD for the Server, Dave Mendlen, Visual Studio product planner, built what he called a "middle-tier business object" for a wine-selling Web site using six lines of code, an operation that he said would take "hundreds of lines of code" with the current version of Visual Basic 6.