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Brian,
This is one of the "electronic commerce" companies that provides
collection services for electronic vendors.  They already support several
electronic commerce publishers.  You may want to visit their URLs and see
what they have to offer.

You gave some interesting numbers this morning.  Similar to some of the
predictions I have heard before, like:

	The internet would have 10 Million e-mail users by the year 2000.
	    (made in january 1994, the 10 million mark was reached by
	     september of that year).

	The Web would have 10 million users by the year 2000.
	    (made in september of 1994 - number reached by august 95).

	Two things are predictible:
		Microsoft will deliver it's announced products late.
		Internet/Unix will deliver it's fruits early.

	The Internet Information Server does not support commerce.  The
	Apache Server supports 5 different revenue collection
	technologies.

	That's what happens when vendors who are frantic to get to market
	are given source code for an application.  (How do you think
	Netscape got where it is).


	Rex Ballard -
	Standard & Poor's/McGraw-Hill
	Opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect
	the Management of the McGraw-Hill Companies.
	http://cnj.digex.net/~rballard


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