"this column is about a new kind of business model whereby a software vendor takes over its customers' CPUs in an aggressive and stealthy manner, and sells the aggregate computing power to third parties. The concept is so lucrative that if it succeeds in this first case, it surely will spread to other software vendors."
http://www.byte.com/column/BYT20010222S0004
http://www.byte.com/column/BYT20010222S0004
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