The Internet-enabled marketplace has changed the way companies are doing business. Vendors are taking advantage of the opportunities created by the Web. The information appliance era is in its early stages. Millions of PCs are sold each year. It is estimated that the information appliance sales could reach billions.
ASPs offer outsourced applications.
Originally, the target customers were small and medium sized businesses who could not afford the cost of complex software applications. Microsoft and Corel now have online versions of their office suite products. The next generation of software applications includes net-gens, programs designed specifically for delivery across the Internet. By midweek parking attendants were directing traffic with the flyswatters.