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> "No one seemed to make the connection or even tried to. Why? Because it was more profitable not to."

What connection? That the rental sims owned by Coldwell Banker are operating on servers like so many services on the Internet do? Of which for 1USD a week interested residents can get their own shared space on the server? How would the technical knowledge of this hurt profit?

Whatever point you are trying to make, it's not very clear how the parallels between shared web hosting and rental sims even relate to each other. Besides both running on a server, many being shared by multiple users. Neither is it clear how these relations can be considered negative or positive. Rather, it just is the way things work for SL and many online services. See reworked points below.

Perhaps you could clarify by continuing to reword the above article or write another piece giving explanation on how failing to delve into the technical workings of land and sims was intentionally avoided "Because it was more profitable not to."

Lets go over it one more time...

* 'Data' on the Internet exists on servers (computers).
* A price is paid for the setup initially by people who buy resources (hosted on a computer server)
* 'Owners' of resources get to pay a recurring fee - bill/invoice, fail to pay it, and service provider will cancel your service.
* There are standards applied (or not) to your use of the services - and if you are naughty on the provider's owned machines, account will be canceled due to service agreement violation.
* Other people on the same server equally share based on their payment plans an amount of resources on that server (compete in SL to unequally share, someday we'll get better control of resources than just prim usage and limited script throttling), such as continually running processes.

> "I hope that those won't be in the Coldwell Banker areas - that would negatively affect their investment., and would be bad for business."

By that, I take it you haven't even visited any of the Coldwell Banker rental sims, for sale properties, office headquarters, rebuild of the one real life house currently on the market or any of the other locations. As nothing more than a friendly suggestion, sounds like you really need to get out more, or at least do some field research before you write. Been open since March. Feel free to stop by during staff hours for a tour. :)