Since then I have made it my life's work to spread the word and to encourage organizations to consider server-based solutions. Once again, the ASP Industry Consortium is reinforcing the closed circuit between members, investors and the press. The competition was open only to the consortium's 700 members, reinforcing the reality that to play in the ASP game, a company has to join the consortium's officially sanctioned loop. The high profile marriages in the industry that have continually fed the press hype have conveniently left out the end user from the industry's growth cycle. By Gerry Blackwell ASP Island Microsoft, largest and most controversial of software vendors, often makes pronouncements about Internet computing and recently made its first forays into the application hosting market via both direct and indirect channels.
Businesses have a surprising amount in common with living organisms.
And they both learn, adapt, exploit and grow through consumption of information. Corporate information, on the other hand, is captured and maintained in databases. Before you get too excited, read this article. As a professor of Computer Science at Polytechnic University, Mandelbaum helped oversee research and development work in network management, network security, broadband networking and wireless communications. In this article, Dr. Mandelbaum outlines his ideas on how the ASPs are driving a new paradigm.