ADO is a COM object. Aggregator - Enables buyers within a market to select among various competitors by aggregating information about the market and its suppliers and providing this information via a Web site.
Content aggregators aggregate information and match it to user preferences.
The computational aspects of an application, including a list of instructions that tells a software application how to operate. An ASP deploys, hosts and manages access to a packaged application to multiple parties from a centrally managed facility. The applications are delivered over networks on a subscription basis. This delivery model speeds implementation, minimizes the expenses and risks incurred across the application life cycle, and overcomes the chronic shortage of qualified technical personnel available in-house. Application Maintenance Outsourcing Provider - These providers manage a proprietary or packaged application from either the customer's or the provider's site.