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Latin Trade, August, 2003 by Greg Brown

"The small and medium-sized businesses don't have a lot of choices. It's steal software or steal software. The temptation is very high," says Saucedo, who projects 65,000 users in the first year of operation. "We believe that the model [will be] that applications are a service, like cable TV, like the telephone. It won't be important if you have software or don't."

GREG BROWN * MIAMI