Karl,
Sometimes I think you work for the Yoyodyne Corporation
from some movie or another.
Tell you what.
You watch the capitalist system of our country reward
companies that utilize new technology to encourage better service.
It really shouldn't be that terribly hard to convince Mr IS
director that the hot swap and load sharing functionality
benefiting the web server you want to sell him, signficantly
outweights the benefit of him having his "own" IP address.
Please don't infer that the big providers are evil greedy
bastards out to use their will to trash companies who exercise new
technology.
If you can somehow explain to me/us how using NAT places a company
at a disadvantage, I'd love to hear it.
-alan