Secret Weapons of ASPs So much has changed since the days before ASPs boomed and busted. Many ASPs tried to do it the wrong way, and have disappeared. The ones that got it right have just been getting better and better. Now they're ready for prime time, while conventional software businesses have no idea how far behind they are in the race. (10-OCT-03)
Service Providers Must Learn to Nurture Customer Relationships The difference between success and failure is as stark as the difference between a one-night stand and marriage. In the past, the IT industry was in the habit of delivering a solution and then running away as quickly as possible.(11-AUG-03)
Missing the (Inflection) Point Siebel has consistently and comprehensively failed to understand the true nature and threat of hosted services. New plans to offer outsourced applications through IBM Global Services emphasize that point. New plans to offer outsourced applications through IBM Global Services emphasize that point.(24-JUL-03)
The End of Software? Consolidation means contraction. When five leading firms propose mergers in the same week, the prognosis for the enterprise software industry looks dire. (10-JUN-03)
Weekly Review: ASPs Tip Web Services Scale May 20, 2003: From Day 1, Net-native ASPs architected their software for delivery as a service. All they needed was to find sufficient agreement on standard interfaces to begin to reap the benefits.(20-MAY-03)
Weekly Review: Quality Always Trumps Speed May 7, 2003: In this week's commentary: To make money, service providers should concentrate on delivering impeccable service quality, rather than on performance-enhancing service management tools.(07-MAY-03)
Weekly Review: XML Brings Power to the People April 29, 2003: In this week's commentary: Once users get wind of the benefits of XML, there will be no holding them back. They'll seize the opportunity reminiscent of the early days of the PC.(29-APR-03)
Weekly Review: Business Process Is King April 22, 2003: In this week's commentary: By bringing BPEL4WS to the standards table in such a convincing manner, IBM and Microsoft have swept away previous uncertainty.(22-APR-03)
Weekly Review: Hidden Heroes of Autonomic Computing April 15, 2003: In this week's commentary: It sounds futuristic — and the way people talk, you'd think IBM had just invented it — but autonomic computing is already a practical reality.(15-APR-03)
Weekly Review: A Trip Down Memory Lane April 1, 2003: In this week's commentary: Recent news stirs memories of the history of the ASP industry and demonstrates the model's staying power, if not the individual players who helped develop it.(01-APR-03)
Weekly Review: Microsoft Shows It's Well-Connected March 26, 2003: In this week's commentary: Many industry watchers predicted that as sofware was swept off the desktop and onto the Internet, Microsoft's market dominance would end. Not even close.(26-MAR-03)
Weekly Review: The Wide World of Web Services Management March 19, 2003: In this week's commentary: 'Web services management' may appear to serve a narrow market today, but don't be misled by the name. It penetrates every sector of information technology.
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Weekly Review: Google an ASP? You Bet It Is Feb. 25, 2003: In this week's commentary: While doesn't fit with the mainstream perception of an ASP, it's difficult to argue that Google isn't the world's largest application service provider. (25-FEB-03)
Weekly Review: Divine Message in Divine's Mess Feb. 18, 2003: This week's commentary: Divine repeated the dot-com sin of banking on future revenues to fund excesses today. The final act of this real-life Greek tragedy may bring Divine retribution. (18-FEB-03)
Weekly Review: ASPs Have Been Where Web Services Are Feb. 12, 2002: In this week's commentary: Like ASPs now, Web services will go through an inevitable bust and will emerge under a new name as a vibrant growth area. But the next few years won't be easy.(12-FEB-03)
Weekly Review: The Language of Web Services Feb. 5, 2003: In this week's commentary: Web services promise to replace long-winded integration processes with instantaneous, platform-independent messaging. But there's a catch. (05-FEB-03)
Weekly Review: It's a Tangled Grid Hype Weaves Jan. 28, 2003: In this week's commentary on industry news: Grid computing's moment of hype has arrived, which means the real story is going to have to take a back seat for a while.(28-JAN-03)
Weekly Review: Innovators Have Connections Jan. 21, 2003: In this week's commentary: The big successes of the Web are companies that catered to connecting users. The next step will come from a new generation of connection-minded innovators.(21-JAN-03)
Weekly Review: ASPs Should Wake up and Smell the WiFi Jan. 7, 2003: In this week's commentary: Broadband alone hasn't taken Web-based apps mainstream. 802.11b wireless networking (a.k.a. WiFi) could be the missing link — whether ASPs know it or not.(07-JAN-03)
Weekly Review: Salesforce.com Envy Abounds Dec. 17, 2002: In this week's commentary: Are Salesforce.com's rivals attacking it out of envy? Of course they are! What ASP wouldn't aspire to that kind of growth, credibility and brand recognition? (17-DEC-02)
Weekly Review: AOL Throws in the Towel Dec. 11, 2002: In this week's commentary: AOL is no longer a serious threat to Microsoft's plan for Web dominance. Let this be a warning to others that the Web isn't simply a new broadcast medium.(11-DEC-02)
Weekly Review: Spam Spells Opportunity for ASPs Dec. 4, 2002: In this week's commentary: Nothing would demonstrate the power of the online service provider model better than a world-class anti-spam service. So why have no ASPs stepped forward?(04-DEC-02)
Weekly Review: Home Field Doesn't Guarantee Microsoft Victory Nov. 26, 2002: In this week's commentary: Even though the network-centric computing game isn't playing out quite the way Sun and Oracle envisioned, Microsoft will still have to fight for market share. (26-NOV-02)
Weekly Review: IBM Practices Software Preaching Nov. 19th, 2002: In this week's commentary on ASP industry news: IBM is not only teaching its partners how to sell software as a service, it has itself already taken its own lessons to heart.(19-NOV-02)
Weekly Review: A Tale of Two Mergers Nov. 11, 2002: In this week's commentary: Recent high-profile acquisitions by Surebridge and Corio tell contrasting stories about the difference between success and failure in the ASP industry. (12-NOV-02)
Weekly Review: Big Blue's Vision Is Self-Centered Nov. 4, 2002: In this week's commentary: As long as IBM perceives on-demand computing as something that its customers get only from IBM, its products and services will fall short of its vision.(05-NOV-02)
Weekly Review: Web Services Journey Will Be Long Oct. 29, 2002: In this week's commentary: The Web services pilgrimage will be a hard one, but weary travelers from the ASP world can take heart in the fact that they are on the right track. (29-OCT-02)
Weekly Review: ASPs Aim for Sweet Spot Oct. 22, 2002: In this week's commentary: Web-based ASPs once lacked credibility. Soon that problem will rest with software vendors that are still asking ten times as much for an equivalent solution.(22-OCT-02)
Weekly Review: Microsoft Faces Web Services Threat Oct. 14, 2002: In this week's commentary: In securing its position within the enterprise, Microsoft has all but surrendered the one territory that really matters — the hosted server. (15-OCT-02)
Weekly Review: Web-Native ASPs Cheer Web Services Oct. 8th 2002: In this week's commentary: Innovative providers of Web-based applications have been slowed by integration issues, but these young guns stand to benefit from XML-based Web services. (08-OCT-02)
Weekly Review: The Power of Utility Computing Sept. 30th, 2002: In this week's commentary: The emergence of gird computing will create a need for a new breed of utility provider, a role that telecoms and hosting providers are well-suited to fill. (01-OCT-02)
Weekly Review: Where Have All the xSPs Gone? Sept. 24, 2002: In this week's commentary on ASP industry news: As service providers start to realize how much they have in common, they are shedding their acronyms and joining forces.(24-SEP-02)
Weekly Review: Oracle's Modest Proposal Sept. 18, 2002: In this week's commentary: For technology vendors market leadership means marketshare, so it's no surprise to see Oracle claim standards leadership in Web services orchestration. (18-SEP-02)
Weekly Review: Greed Is Not Good In this week's commentary on ASP industry news: Software vendors need to loosen up on license fees or the same sins that plagued ASPs years ago will visit Web services. (11-SEP-02)
Weekly Review: Web Services New Tree in Same Forest August 27, 2002: In this week's commentary: In 1999, pioneering providers clung to the ASP tree. Now a bigger band is reaching for the Web services tree, not realizing the forest is the key discovery. (27-AUG-02)
Weekly Review: Road to Success Paved With Patience In this week's commentary on ASP industry news: Companies such as Agilera and Surebridge are proving that when it comes to application services, slow and steady is indeed winning the race.(21-AUG-02)
Weekly Review: Dark Days of August Aug. 13, 2002: With the WorldCom mess getting uglier, a venerable ASP turning to bankruptcy protection and even some positive news, there's nothing lazy about these days of summer.(13-AUG-02)
Weekly Review: To the Survivors Belong the Spoils August 6, 2002: In this week's commentary on industry news: Pure-play enterprise ASPs are getting strong through consolidation, while Web-native ASPs are just plain getting stronger.(06-AUG-02)
Weekly Review: Is Microsoft Making the Grade? July 30, 2002: In this week's commentary on industry news: Bill Gates gave Microsoft C grades for some classes its .Net curriculum. Here is its complete Web services report card.(30-JUL-02)
Weekly Review: Web Services Missing a Key Ingredient July 22, 2002: In this week's commentary on ASP industry news: Amazon.com's Web services developer toolkit and API represent major technologically leaps, but it's money that makes the world go round.(23-JUL-02)
Weekly Review: Standards Make ASP Vision a Reality July 16, 2002: In this week's commentary: SAML and Liberty Alliance specifications will knock down the barriers to adoption that defeated many of the pioneers of Internet-based business services.(16-JUL-02)
Weekly Review: The New Masters of the Enterprise? July 8, 2002: In this week's commentary: Salesforce.com has set its sights on the enterprise software market and eBay may one day be the number-one commercial bank of the Internet? (09-JUL-02)
Weekly Review: An Economic Reality Check July 2, 2002: In this week's commentary on ASP industry news: The telecom revenue illusion is over ... Microsoft and Sun learn to get along in the Web services world.(02-JUL-02)
Weekly Review: Three Strikes and AIP Market Is Out June 25, 2002: In this week's commentary: The disappearance of Intel Online Services, Loudcloud and XO all but wipes out application infrastructure providers as an autonomous business category. (25-JUN-02)
Weekly Review: Opportunities Lie in Digital Identity June 19, 2002: In this week's commentary: Microsoft and Sun's Liberty Alliance have left the door open to digital identity supremacy. And AOL, Novell and Critical Path are poised to step in.(19-JUN-02)
Weekly Review: Work Still Looks Good on Paper June 11, 2002: In this week's commentary: The agreement between Adobe and SAP to create a Web-based document exchange platform misses an important point — people like paper. (11-JUN-02)
Weekly Review: Web Services on the Desktop June 3 2002: In this week's commentary on ASP industry news: One of the keys to understanding Web services is to remember that the goal is to enhance the role played by the client, not eliminate it.(04-JUN-02)
Weekly Review: The Internet Will Flatten Inflated Pricing May 29, 2001: In this week's commentary: Software developers have assumed that the high margins they earn reflect the value of their intellectual property, but they have been deceiving themselves.(29-MAY-02)
Weekly Review: The ASP (Silent) Killer App May 21, 2001: In this week's commentary: The success of hosted e-mail paints a clear picture for the future of ASP-delivered applications. It tells us that the Internet is for doing, not browsing.(21-MAY-02)
Weekly Review: Old ASP Ideas Are New Again May 13, 2002: In this week's commentary: Enthusiastic entrepreneurs are coming up with the same plans that failed previously. But with history as a guide, failed ideas might just fly this time around.(14-MAY-02)
Weekly Review: MSPs Need Management May 7, 2002: In this week's commentary on industry news: What does the 'M' in MSP stand for? You say 'managed.' I say 'management.' Let's not call the whole thing off, but please do say 'management.'(07-MAY-02)
Weekly Review: Is Microsoft Tired of Web Services? April 29, 2002: In this week's commentary: Microsoft has made .NET the focus of its future vision, but some inside the company are showing signs of wear when it comes to Web services.(29-APR-02)
Weekly Review: Glimpses of a Shared Web April 22, 2002: In this week's commentary on ASP industry news: Grid computing, Web services and P2P are moving the dream of a shared, global, real-time Web closer to reality. (22-APR-02)
Weekly Review: Microsoft Still in Control April 16, 2002: In this week's commentary: Microsoft's move away from .NET My Services was inevitable and actually strengthens its plans to control the infrastructure platform for Web services. (16-APR-02)
Weekly Review: Are ASPs Big Business Again? April 2, 2001: In this week's commentary: Don't let big ASP revenue projections fool you, the future of software is net-native and ASPs that recognize it will be the ones to enjoy long-term success.(02-APR-02)
Weekly Review: SEC Saves McAfee from Parent March 26, 2002: In this week's commentary: A day after McAfee turned down a buy-back bid from Network Associates, the SEC stepped in block further action. It's the best thing that could have happened. (26-MAR-02)
Weekly Review: ASPs — The Inside Story March 18, 2002: In this week's commentary: Some ASP trailblazers now offer inside-the-enterprise services. Is this the end of the ASP model or just a natural step in the evolution of Web services?(19-MAR-02)
Weekly Review: The Trouble With Telecoms March 11, 2002: In this week's commentary on industry news: Bankruptcies by telecommunications and infrastructure giants make the losses suffered by some ASP investors seem like pocket change. (12-MAR-02)
Weekly Review: Service Providers Get Down to Business March 5, 2002: In this week's commentary: An IDC study confirms something we've long believed. Automating business processes is the next phase in the evolution of software as a service.(05-MAR-02)
Weekly Review: Security Begins With You Feb. 25, 2002: In this week's commentary: The technology to ensure Web services security is in place, but it's up to developers and ASPs to use it ... plus why SFA suits the ASP model so well.(25-FEB-02)
Qwest Cyber.Solutions Gone But the Quest Continues Feb. 19, 2002: In this week's commentary: Don't mourn the loss of Qwest Cyber.Solutions; but rather celebrate how companies like Salesforce.com and Interliant are leading the way to ASP success. (19-FEB-02)
Weekly Review: Real Time is Right for ASPs The definition of an ASP goes well beyond hosting applications these days. In an increasingly online, real-time world, ASPs are combining the skills of MSPs, ISVs and system integrators.(12-FEB-02)
Weekly Review: AOL Keeps IM to Itself Feb. 5., 2002: In this week's commentary: At a time when partnerships and collaboration reigns, AOL continues to stand alone.(05-FEB-02)
Weekly Review: In Praise of Web Site Hosting Jan. 28 2002: Interland has mastered the art of small business Web site hosting and is perfectly positioned to deliver applications. Plus: ... the shape of apps to come ... and Divine intervention.(29-JAN-02)
Weekly Review: Web Services Loom Large, But .... In this week's commentary: Sure, Web services represent the future of software (you heard it here first in '98) ... but packaged applications aren't going away and sometimes buying is still better.(22-JAN-02)
Weekly Review: Aggregators Out, Integrators In Jan. 14, 2002: In this week's commentary on ASP industry news: Are ASP aggregators as dead as a dodo or just evolving into a more advanced state?(14-JAN-02)
Is the ASP Glass Half Empty or Half Full? Jan. 8, 2002: In this week's commentary on industry news: It's early 2002, do you know where the ASP market is headed? Optimists will look to Xevo's good news; pessimists will point to USi's bad news. (08-JAN-02)
The Year In Review In this year-end commentary on ASP industry news: The top 10 trends of 2001.(02-JAN-02)
Weekly Review: It's All About Security In this week's commentary on ASP industry news: The keys to the Internet kingdom may lie in making it a secure place to do business. (10-DEC-01)
Weekly Review: Collaborative Software Development Emerges Dec. 3, 2001: In this week's commentary on ASP industry news: Does the announcement of Eclipse.org signal a new dawn for software development? And the consolidation trend continues with a bang.(03-DEC-01)
Weekly Review: Where Have All The ASPs Gone? In this week's commentary: The ASP market isn't melting away — like an iceberg its structure lies largely beneath the surface. Plus, setting the record straight on Microsoft.(26-NOV-01)
Weekly Review: bCentral Takes a Back Seat November 20, 2001: In this week's commentary on ASP industry news: Microsoft cans bCentral applications — begging this question: Does it know what it's doing?(20-NOV-01)
Weekly Review: Citrix Embraces Future; Denies Its Past Nov. 5th 2001: In this week's commentary on ASP industry news: The launch of South Beach shows that Citrix finally understands what the ASP model really is all about.(06-NOV-01)
Weekly Review: What A Week For Web Services Oct. 29, 2001: Commentary on ASP industry news: Will Web services overshadow the impact of Windows XP when history looks back on the events of last week?(29-OCT-01)
Weekly Review: New Life for USi Oct. 16th 2001: In this week's commentary on ASP industry news: Bain rescues USi, but dilutes shareholders' equity; Divine and Sun bet on ASPs.(16-OCT-01)
Weekly Review: The Future's Bright For ASPs That 'Get' It An IDC study confirms the value of ASPs, but, as some recent failures suggest, companies that don't understand the role of Web services are headed for trouble.(08-OCT-01)
Weekly Review: eBay And Yahoo! Not Just Consumer Sites Successful ASPs aren't just enterprise-class services supplying the best of ERP and CRM software. eBay and Yahoo! are opening doors for small businesses.(01-OCT-01)
Weekly Review: One Small Step for Microsoft .... Sept. 25, 2001: In this week's commentary on ASP industry news: By opening up its Passport authentication service to the world, Microsoft takes its first step towards a courageous Web services leap.(25-SEP-01)
Weekly Review: Global Business Centers Share New York's Pain Sept. 18, 2001: In this week's commentary: As the U.S., and to a large extent the world, attempts to pick itself up, the need for a robust, sustainable infrastructure takes on more meaning.(18-SEP-01)
Weekly Review: Full Service Providers Come Up Empty Sept. 10, 2001: In this week's commentary on ASP industry news: FSP failures continue at breakaway speed and Compaq-HP could be an interesting marriage and fascinating divorce.(10-SEP-01)
Weekly Review: A Bit of Good News Sept. 3, 2001: In this week's commentary on ASP industry news: A week of contract wins, profitability claims and funding successes.(04-SEP-01)
Weekly Review: ASP Enablers Make Progress August 27, 2001: In this week's commentary on ASP industry news: Progress Software and IBM shift gears to bring more companies to ASP model.(27-AUG-01)
Weekly Review: No Justice In McAfee's Patent In this week's commentary on ASP industry news: McAfee oversteps the patent mark, writes ASPnews consulting analyst Phil Wainewright.(13-AUG-01)
Weekly Review: The Great MSP Debate In this week's commentary on ASP industry news: To host or not to host? That is the MSP question. Plus, a divine acquisition.(07-AUG-01)
How ISVs Can Survive the Switch to Web Services Today's leading ISVs are making the same mistake that 1980s computer manufacturers such as DEC and Data General made, warns ASPnews consulting analyst Phil Wainewright.(03-AUG-01)
Weekly Review: Some Survive, Others Thrive In this week's commentary on ASP industry news: Thriving Web service providers Expedia and ScreamingMedia join ASP ranks.(30-JUL-01)
Don't Worry, Be Happy Economy got you down? Think maybe this ASP thing wasn't such a great idea after all? You got no reason to sing the blues — as you'll see in the ASPnews Top 10 Reasons to Be Happy.(27-JUL-01)
Weekly Review: Is Sun Burning ASP Bridges? In this week's commentary on ASP industry news: Sun backs EDS and risks alienating ASPs; and Compaq offers servers as a service.(23-JUL-01)
Weekly Review: Anticipating Q2 Financial Results In this week's commentary on ASP industry news: ASP profits — whether based on gross margin, EBITDA or real net earnings — are under scrutiny. (16-JUL-01)
Weekly Review: Microsoft Stumbles As a Service In this week's commentary on ASP industry news: Microsoft's Messenger lets it down, proving that it's not easy — even for software giants — to succeed in the service sector.(10-JUL-01)
Oracle, NetLedger Execute Textbook Deal In this week's commentary on ASP industry news: Ellison keeps Oracle ahead of Microsoft and others by teaming with small-business ASP NetLedger.(02-JUL-01)
Weekly Review: Microsoft Can't Give It Away June 25th 2001: In this week's commentary on ASP industry news: How will Microsoft monetize Web services ... and is the software giant really willing to share?(26-JUN-01)
Weekly Review: Intuit's Cook Has Wrong Recipe In this week's commentary on ASP industry news: Small businesses need more than 'simple, fast, cheap' ... and processing power emerges as a service.(20-JUN-01)
ASP — A Step Beyond Outsourcing People who think that ASPs are the same as outsourcers have got it wrong, says consulting analyst Phil Wainewright.(15-JUN-01)
Weekly Review: Free Doesn't Pay Off June 11th 2001: In this week's commentary on ASP industry news: The death of free and a glimpse of the next generation of Web services.(12-JUN-01)
The Myth of Cost-Free Distribution Online providers and ASPs are rediscovering the unavoidable cost of customer service, writes consulting analyst Phil Wainewright.(05-JUN-01)
Weekly Review: The Third Wave of ASPs May 21st 2001: In this week's commentary on ASP industry news: Three ASP success models; and C&W makes a smart move.(22-MAY-01)
ASPs — Masters of the Internet A new kind of ASP is emerging to power the next generation of the functional Internet, writes ASPnews consulting analyst Phil Wainewright.(22-MAY-01)
Weekly Review: NetLedger Reaches Beyond Accounting April 23rd 2001: In this week's commentary on ASP industry news: Online providers roll out integrated suites, and consulting analyst Phil Wainewright explains why Yahoo's new CEO is the wrong choice.(23-APR-01)
ASPs Wake Up to Collaborative Computing The truth is out there, and MSPs discovered it long before ASPs realized what was going on, writes ASPnews consulting analyst Phil Wainewright.(20-APR-01)
Weekly Review: PKI Infiltrates Application Infrastructure April 16th 2001: In this week's commentary on ASP industry news: Public Key Infrastructure becomes a service; industry pioneers are up for sale, writes ASPnews consulting analyst Phil Wainwright.(18-APR-01)
Weekly Review: ASP Pioneer Stumbles, Others Expand In this week's commentary on ASP industry news: Interliant trims its ambitions but others — including giant EDS — add to ASP investments, writes consulting analyst Phil Wainewright.(09-APR-01)
Weekly Review: Don't Pin Failures on ASP Market In this week's commentary on ASP industry news: Futurelink succumbs, but the ASP spirit goes marching on, writes ASPnews consulting analyst Phil Wainwright.(02-APR-01)
Weekly Review: A Show of Confidence In this week's commentary on ASP industry news: Micron, Intuit and others increase their commitment to the ASP model.(26-MAR-01)
ASPs Need to Understand the Value of 'Business IP' Businesses unknowingly entrust their most precious asset to ASPs — handle it with care, writes ASPnews consulting analyst Phil Wainewright.(22-MAR-01)
Weekly Review: All Hail HailStorm? In this week's commentary on ASP industry news: HailStorm — Microsoft's latest pitch for domination — also dominates the news, writes consulting analyst Phil Wainewright.(20-MAR-01)
Weekly Review: Pieces Are Falling into Place In this week's commentary on ASP industry news: Subscription desktops, P2P and managed DNS — it all connects, writes consulting analyst Phil Wainewright.(13-MAR-01)
Weekly News Analysis: Nobody Stores for Free In this week's commentary on ASP industry news: Can online storage providers make money? And Ellison says, "Don't code."(26-FEB-01)
Weekly ASP Industry Review In this week's commentary, consulting analyst Phil Wainewright notes that Intuit picked up a web-based bargain ... and that bad ASP news is starting to run dry.(20-FEB-01)
Weekly ASP Industry Review In this week's commentary on ASP industry news: Sun makes up lost ground with Sun ONE.(12-FEB-01)
Breaking Software Out of the Box Sun's vision of "smart web services" based on process and policy is the beginning of the software revolution predicted a year ago by ASPnews.com's Phil Wainewright.(07-FEB-01)
P2P Meets ASP Peer computing will turn the ASP's role inside out, predicts Phil Wainewright(24-JAN-01)
Now Everyone Has to Cross the Chasm How do you "cross the chasm" as a technology startup? There can be very few high-tech entrepreneurs and investors who are unaware of Geoffrey Moore's book, Crossing the Chasm and its follow-up titles.(15-JUL-00)
Adapting to a New Era of Computing Most of the companies currently piling into the ASP marketplace have little idea what they are getting into. The familiarity of the once-obscure ASP acronym has bred complacency, and today's received wisdom is that the ASP model is simply a subscription-based variation on application outsourcing.(26-JUN-00)
History Is About to Repeat Itself For the past year, a revolution has been brewing in the computing
world. It has attracted little attention while those involved have
quietly laid their plans. Now they are beginning to declare their
intentions, but they still disingenuously insist they will not upset the
status quo. (11-MAY-00)
Who is the Most Innovative of all ASPs? When an entire sector is an innovation in itself, is it possible to pick out individual players whose innovation stands head-and-shoulders above those of their peers? That is the challenge we on the ASPnews.com staff are facing this week as we draw up our shortlist for an award presentation at the end of this month.(13-MAR-00)
Chief Architect of Software-as-Services When I heard Bill Gates' new job title the other week, for a moment I thought someone had accidentally put an extra word in it. Instead of Chief Software Architect, surely that should have been simply Chief Architect? Or - even shorter - just plain 'God'.(14-FEB-00)
To Lease or to Rent, that is the Question Listen carefully, and you will notice that very few ASPs are using the word rental. This is in stark contrast to the very early days of the industry, when people talked about software rental and application rental as a glib, shorthand way of defining what ASPs do.(17-JAN-00)
ASPs Give Birth to Industry Consortium It hardly seems more than a month or two since anyone started using the
phrase application service provider, and yet already several of them have got
together with vendors to form an industry body.(31-AUG-99)
An Application Service Primer If you're toying with the idea of trying out the services of an application service
provider, I've got news for you: you're probably doing it already. ASP may be a
brand new acronym, but what it describes is already commonplace in many
areas of information technology.(31-AUG-99)
Is Your Enterprise Ripe for Outsourcing? Last week (Apr 26th), internetwork equipment vendor Cisco Systems came out
in favour of application service providers in a big way. Its Hosted Applications
Initiative - CHAI, to give it its full acronym - is a marketing and skills
development programme intended to drum up enthusiasm among small and
medium-size businesses for the idea of sourcing their applications from online
providers. (31-AUG-99)
ASP insider: ASPs give birth to industry consortium It hardly seems more than a month or two since anyone started using the phrase application service provider, and yet already several of them have got together with vendors to form an industry body.(20-MAY-99)
ASP insider: Is your enterprise ripe for outsourcing? Last week (Apr 26th), internetwork equipment vendor Cisco Systems came out in favour of application service providers in a big way. Its Hosted Applications Initiative - CHAI, to give it its full acronym - is a marketing and skills development programme intended to drum up enthusiasm among small and medium-size businesses for the idea of sourcing their applications from online providers. (06-MAY-99)
ASP insider: An application service primer If you're toying with the idea of trying out the services of an application service provider, I've got news for you: you're probably doing it already. ASP may be a brand new acronym, but what it describes is already commonplace in many areas of information technology.(22-APR-99)
