This concept is integral to our business plans. We see a separation between IAPs and ISPs. Access is the only place that absolutely no one can compete with the telcos. They have scads of raw switch capacity, which is already paid-for, therefore, no one can touch their operations cost levels. Having been in management at both MCI and Pacific Bell, I have seen this personally.
Access is another place where initial investment cost is a serious barrier to entry.
Further, we're a Linux shop and heavily invested in the open-source concept. On that note, we are looking into opportunities to provide those services as well. Including an Enterprise Server diistribution for Linux, but that's another story. The only difference is the data, which are the objects wrapping the pSQL statements. Further, if it's is bundled as part of a Linux distribution, the development cost is now part of a product, therefore carried on a different ledger entirely, as part of investment cost for a software product, rather than being charged against the service.