Volume 10, July 27, 2000
"ASPs are coming ASAP"
by Alessandra Bianchi, Inc., April 2000, p. 29
"The ‘new’ ASP refers to a type of computer business called an application service provider, which offers outsourcing with an Internet twist. An ASP hosts software applications, which its customers access over the Web instead of running them on their own computers. ASPs aim to save their customers the costs and hassle of owning and managing technology, by ‘renting’ to them whatever software they need." (p. 29) Phil Wainewright, founder and managing editor of ASPnews.com states, "People will continue to buy software but will get an increasing proportion of it via subscription or on a pay-as-you-go basis." (p. 30) "Many [ASP] companies even offer customers a choice of how they would like to pay—by subscriber, by transaction, or by number of ports or concurrent users." (p. 31)
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