1. A policy based application provisioning system for use in a collaborative environment, the system comprising: a policy comprising rules for limiting collaborative context creation and operation in the collaborative environment; a context provisioning process coupled to said policy and configured to create collaborative contexts in the collaborative environment limited by said rules in said policy; and, a context management process coupled to a data store of usage data for created ones of created collaborative contexts in the collaborative environment, said context management process having a configuration for remediating detected violations of said rules in said created ones of said collaborative contexts according to usage data for said created ones of said collaborative contexts.