Sentence examples for rents software from inspiring English sources

USINTERNETWORKING INC., Annapolis, Md., which rents software through the Internet, has agreed with the AT&T Corp., New York, to market business services together to reach more customers.

Companies rent software over the air, rather than buying it with expensive maintenance contracts.

Salesforce.com allows businesses to rent software and use it online rather than buy software packages that require installation.

The service will also include an online store where people can offer or rent software for use in the Hewlett-Packard public cloud.

I.B.M. also said it is negotiating new price agreements with application service providers, companies that rent software to customers via the Internet.

THEY are among the new, new things: application service providers, or A.S.P.'s, companies in the business of renting software to corporations over the Internet.

The inclusion of Oracle and Microsoft shows Amazon heading toward large business customers with its variety of cloud computing services for renting software, storage space and processing cycles.

And businesses say they are reaping substantial savings by renting software remotely rather than buying it and installing it on site.

Every so often, when a software supplier upgrades, they have to start from scratch.With Salesforce.com's service, by contrast, companies rent software rather than buy it for $65 per user per month.

Microsoft started Azure to try to hold on to corporate customers that Amazon wants to pry away, and has struggled for years to adapt its business from selling individual software packages to renting software over the cloud.

The deal is Microsoft's biggest bet yet that the traditional software business is shifting quickly to cloud computing, a model in which customers rent software and other services delivered over the internet.