Masonry Magazine April 2005 Page. 35
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IN THE LATE 1990S, ONE OF THE POPULAR technology movements was toward "Web-hosted" applications-renting the application on a peruser or even peruse basis without the need for the overhead of expensive servers and high-powered computers. The applications were available over the Internet, hosted by an applications service provider (ASP) that assured you the applications were secure, virus-free and continuously updated. You, as a client, would have a safe partition on their server, daily back-ups and all the support you needed. Your employees could access the applications and your data from anywhere in the world that offered an Internet connection.
Like Cleopatra, that ASP bit a lot of companies that didn't have or want a leading-edge technical infrastructure to worry about. But as the "dot-com boom" weakened, companies hurried to return to the local server and client-based applications that were, if not better, at least controlled by the company and not at the mercy of changing financial conditions among the ASPs and even some of the software companies themselves.
What has changed to make them a better deal than they were five or six years ago? Norm Wendl, President of Corecon Technologies, Inc., of Huntington Beach, Calif., responds to that question by saying "There are really two terms: 'on-demand computing' and 'software as a service (SAS). Those are the terms in use today, but they are just new terms for the old ASP model. The research company Gardner predicts by 2006, 30% of small businesses will use software as a service."
He sees three reasons why this market is making a recovery. "A few years ago, high-quality, high-bandwidth or high-speed Intermet access was less common than it is today. Most of our customers have high-speed Internet access today. By November 2005, Verizon will have built out a 3G wireless network*. and we're going to see other telecommunication companies offering higher-speed Internet access."
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