Along with a crash course on the short history of ASPs, FutureLink is rounding up customers for its services. Seminar sponsors include Citrix Systems, Compaq and Microsoft. On the road show, FutureLink bills itself as one of the first ASPs. Kilambi, who joined the company in Calgary and helped move operations to the West Coast, said FutureLink's view of what became known as the ASP market was more fundamental in 1996. We thought of it like a telephone.
Computers are as important as telephones.
As we saw it, the brain of the applications on desktops could be stored at a centralized data center. Initially, it began offering, through partnership deals, ASP platforms from Microsoft and Citrix. Last year, FutureLink acquired seven system integration companies in North America and the United Kingdom. FutureLink also acquired debt. About 750 worldwide.