1.   The Sacramento Municipal Utilities District has a similar program for solar power.

2.   Recently, the network began helping hair stylists throughout the Southeast set up similar programs in their shops.

3.   Acme developed a program to record and monitor drug dosages to hospital patients and Zenith, shortly afterwards, brought out a similar program.

4.   Almost every major retailer on the Web has a similar program either online or in the works.

5.   Already, Napster has spawned similar programs like Macster, Wrapster, iCrave and Gnutella.

6.   American and Continental have similar programs.

7.   Amazon.com and other e-merchants now have similar referring programs.

8.   And a competitor, White Plains, N.Y.-based Prodigy Services Co., announced a similar program recently to invest in on-line partners under its Hothouse program.

9.   And across the country, other states are creating similar programs.

10.   And government officials up and down the West Coast have inquired about how to launch similar programs.