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ASPnews.com > News archive > 1998-99 highlights ASP NEWS ARCHIVE HIGHLIGHTS 1998-99
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Top stories from the first year of the ASP industry as chronicled on ASPnews.com. ASP industry news is summarised every month in the ASP News Review newsletter. For subscription details... click here>>
September 1998: Early stirrings of the nascent industry as Interliant unveils a portal for rented applications.
October 1998: Oracle executives make bullish predictions for its proposed Business OnLine application hosting division. Among ecommerce vendors, a new trend emerges towards hosted online stores.
November 1998: Corio signs the ASP industry's first big-name customer, and the landmark ASP News Review report, Packaged Software Rental: The Net's Killer App appears in edition 1.0.
December 1998: Giving early clues to their future strategies, Intel buys into ecommerce hosting, Futurelink outlines ambitious ASP plans, and Microsoft funds ASP development at Qwest.
January 1999: Financials vendor QSP demonstrates that even banks can be sold enterprise-class ASP services.
February 1999: Microsoft reveals to ASP News Review its plans to introduce rental licensing. Meanwhile, the world's first ASP-ready ERP suite goes into production.
March 1999: Hewlett-Packard brings heavyweight credibility to the ASP arena with the announcement it is reinventing itself around the notion of E-Services.
April 1999: USinternetworking makes a dramatic debut as the first ASP to join Nasdaq. Later in the month, Cisco launches its marketing and support programme for ASPs.
May 1999: The ASP scene explodes into action as Sun launches its service provider scheme, the ASP Industry Consortium is formed, and Progress unveils its programme to nurture ASP projects among its ISV partners.
June 1999: Long-distance telco Qwest joins forces with 'Big Five' consulting firm KPMG for its entry into the ASP market.
July 1999: A top US bank is the first of many Fortune 500 companies to adopt the ASP model as a way of delivering revenue-earning services to small business customers and partners.
August 1999: Netledger typifies a new generation of online application providers ready to drive prices virtually to zero. Meanwhile, Concentric declares itself as a new category of complex hosting provider, dedicated to providing a complete infrastructure to ASPs.
September 1999: As many as 80 ASPs attend Citrix' annual conference, where the vendor launches pay-as-you-go licensing for accredited ASPs. A week later, Microsoft reveals a fundamental shift in its company strategy in favour of a software-as-services model.
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