Outsourcing may be just the solution. Those centers will probably become the staging ground for a new range of application services being developed in conjunction with Compaq Computer and as of yet unnamed content developers, says Stuart Keeping, director of IP applications, at Cable and Wireless. The first center will open in Reston, VA with the next six centers to be built in London, Frankfurt, Munich, Tokyo, Sydney, and Santa Clara, California. The interest is understandable. As Europe continues to be the fastest-growing sector for Internet access in the world, global and European companies want to develop localized services.
Data centers are a good approach.
Companies can offload the critical facilities costs associated with running an e-commerce site, freeing them up to focus on development. But the big draw may be the specialized Internet skill set that these providers offer. Managing Windows NT Web sites isn't our core competency.