>Nope.. for business it has to be 100% IMO.

Oh yes, the perfect business in the perfect econmy. I'm not saying that I think we shoudl shoot ourselves in the feet, but, well, lets look at it this way: I sell software to thousands of people around the country, there are a bunch of large retail chains, but mostly, its an awful lot of 1 store, or 2 store shops selling minnows out in the sticks.

If I were to tell them that for a minimal subscription price, they could instantly get a Timecard solution for their 15 employees and we wouldn't need to spend any time installing it, maintaining it, or all that 1990's crap (*g*), I think they would go for it. If the web was down for a day, hey, they spend a minute or two writing it down on paper and fixing it tomarrow.

I can also go to this company (who spends more money on tabloids than IT) and say, via a the web, you can send some inventory information to a web service and get some pretty slick promotion signs back (through a browser, or PDF, ect) instantly, I think they would go at that too.

Its these sort of services in these sort of situations that allow the Web service consumers to round out their businesses in ways you haven't started to piece together. In my predictions anyways.

Would I suggest that a Fortune 100 company put its payroll system on a server half way accross the world in my basement? Hell no. I am, however, thinking about the possibilities here.

>No business is going to put itself knowingly at risk Mike...

Huh? MS does that every day *g*

Hey, like I said, its different, and we'll have to think differnt. And with that, are we gonna have to agree to disagree?