It creates market incentives that will change how consumers see software.

For the first time companies like Yahoo will have a powerful tool to identify software applications that respect consumers and a means to monitor and enforce compliance over time.

[Benioff contends that this approach will eventually change the entire structure of his industry. Software over the Web -- commonly called on-demand -- accounted for less than 10% of the $46 billion in corporate software sold last year. But he says creating an open marketplace for on-demand software will help cause the decline of the big, complex, and expensive corporate applications sold by the likes of SAP ( SAP ) and Oracle Corp. ( ORCL ).] It's a big leap for us, ... We think it will show the world the next step for on-demand computing, just as we showed the world the first step.

Oil Change will detect all of the hardware and software on your PC and ... compare it with our database.

They are looking for us to do it for them.

It's another manifestation of the democratization of software.