5. A method for policy based application provisioning, the method comprising the steps of: creating by a computer system a policy comprising rules for limiting collaborative context creation and operation in the collaborative environment; creating by a computer system a context provisioning process coupled to said policy a collaborative context in the collaborative environment limited by said rules in said policy; and detecting by a computer system violations of said rules in said created ones of said collaborative contexts according to usage data for said created ones of said collaborative contexts, remediating, by a computer system a context management process coupled to a data store of usage data for created ones of created collaborative contexts in the collaborative environment, 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.
5. A method for policy based application provisioning, the method comprising the steps of: creating by a computer system a policy comprising rules for limiting collaborative context creation and operation in the collaborative environment; creating by a computer system a context provisioning process coupled to said policy a collaborative context in the collaborative environment limited by said rules in said policy; and detecting by a computer system violations of said rules in said created ones of said collaborative contexts according to usage data for said created ones of said collaborative contexts, remediating, by a computer system a context management process coupled to a data store of usage data for created ones of created collaborative contexts in the collaborative environment, 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. 7. The method of claim 5 , wherein said step of remediating said policy comprises the step of denying said request where said policy does not permit provisioning of collaborative contexts by a collaborator issuing said request.