Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen figures it'll take the better part of 10 year for applications to be delivered strictly by the web.

So Much for Lingua Franca
After a bit of kicking and screaming France has backed the so-called London Agreement that will make European patents cheaper to get. They won't have to be translated into so many darn languages.

Forecasts 'Dangerous': Google
At its analysts' day the other day, Google remained reluctant to forecast how its Google apps will fare and evaded off the question of whether it could get 5%-7% of the SMB segments saying predictions were "dangerous." It claimed it's a function of the penetration of Internet and that a lot of companies are still Internet naif. It reckons, however, that its presence in the market has affected pricing.

Yoo-Hoo, Salesforce
On January 1 Microsoft is planning on cutting the Dynamics CRM hosting fee that it charges channel partners by 40% to $15, a move that it supposed to be directed at Salesforce.com, whose average selling price is supposed to be around $65.