Usability/Usability humor
Friday, June 7, 2002[11:33:02 AM]
TheRegister has an article on Web native ASPs. This is a market segment that should do well in the long run. Security, backups, scalability, and round-the-clock reliability are expensive and difficult for individuals and small organizations. ASPs focused on quality rather than stock valuation will be a huge boon to the economy.
"Web native" is a pretty nasty label. They mean to distinguish between applications accessed by a web browser, and desktop applications where the software and data are on servers owned by the ASP instead of by your company. The latter situation has obvious show-stoppers.
But I'd say "web native" is too narrow a definition to understand the value of ASPs. Internet publishing and commerce are so complicated that there are large economies of scale. ASPs will do a booming business providing internet-based services (managed publishing and commerce, for instance) to small organizations.
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