I personally never understood why they had the "free" RMS service. (I guess it was to ensure that they had users of their software) The installation of RMS is nothing and there are going to be a number of hosting/resellers that are going to be providing RMS for a fee. From what I have been able to see, RMS is the most bandwidth intensive part of Dolphin.

Dolphin is a great platform and is really opening up the "social site" type of website, but as it becomes more popular and see more more companies/individuals are using it, a new market for those that support Boonex/Dolphin will be creeated.

I hate to say it, but as the popularity of the software platform grows, a new market is created for the Dolphin supporting web hosting companies. In these recent economic times of trouble, this seems to me to be a good thing.

Users can still get a "free" version of Dolphin, but the burden will be for them to pay somebody for the "extras" that Dolphin provides. This, in turn, will foster better relations in the hosting community for those that are providing the extras that the the free version doesn't include.