asps in news
RSS asps in newsOpen source: 'World's largest software company'
News That figure doesn't include application service providers (ASPs) that use open source to service their clients. Open source software is successfully displacing proprietary applications in many large companies and eating... [22 Apr 2008]
2006 to see falling mobile phone prices
News Suominen concluded: "In the mobile devices market, we expect to see growth not only in volume but also in value but we expect there will be some decline in the industry's ASPs. Revealing its latest set of financial... [27 Jan 2006]
Wave of Euro-regulation to spark outsourcing
News The next wave of European banking regulation will lead smaller financial services players to outsource or use application service providers in order to cope with the increasing compliance demands. MiFID (Markets in Financial Instruments... [04 Aug 2005]
Re:Viewing 2004: Software and open source
News ASPs are back. Speaking of which, 'software as a service' is a delivery method that's come into its own this year after fizzling out years back when players were known as application service providers... [21 Dec 2004]
Airlines see IT as key to recovery
News The increasing use of application service providers (ASPs) and outsourcing is one of the key trends highlighted by the study. Over 80 per cent use ASPs and Buecking said companies are moving to these... [24 Sep 2003]
Software gloom likely to continue til 2007
News Hewett believes that web services is a "disruptive technology", which may cause enterprises to move away from buying independent software products and instead move to a "services-based architecture", which improves the outlook for... [21 Jul 2003]
Oracle finally sees some return from hosted services
News He said: "There is a lot of fear and doubt surrounding the ASPs who came into the market and came out again very quickly. Oracle has boosted customer interest in its ASP model with European take-up increasing more than... [27 Jun 2002]
User security threatened by 'sub-standard' ASPs
News A quarter of ASPs are failing to achieve acceptable levels of security. IDC looked at 50 ASPs and found that 25 per cent of them had sub-standard user authentication, virus protection, network security... [27 Feb 2002]
Ellison: Give me control of your budgets
News Despite ASPs' fall from grace, and the obvious reluctance of IT directors to relinquish control of IT budgets, he remained confident the hosted service would be successful. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison promised to slash... [18 Jan 2002]
Microsoft cuts ASP prices
News He said: "The revenues we are seeing from ASPs in the UK are growing and the rate at which they are growing has been increasing over the past few months. Microsoft will cut the prices of a range of ASP software products... [27 Nov 2001]
ASPs cut back on IT infrastructure spend
News Wireless ASPs are feeling the pressure of the sore economic climate and many are being forced to cut back on infrastructure spend, or flop. Wireless-application service providers are spending less on IT infrastructure... [09 Nov 2001]
Napster II: the revenge of P2P
News It is, just like many other companies (including ASPs) just another distributor of software. When is a music file-swapping site like Napster not a file-swapping site like Napster? When a civil liberties group says it's not. [07 Nov 2001]
Prize-winning ASP quits ASP business
News Award-winning ASP Vistorm has abandoned the conventional hosting business and is now persuading large corporate customers to set up miniature ASPs internally. David Angwin, director of marketing at Vistorm, said: "The... [31 Oct 2001]
ASPs: We know what they are
News Top five ASPs included telecomputing - the only pure-play ASP to make it into the top five. Three quarters of companies know what an ASP is, but only one in four will buy them. A recent survey by Frost and Sullivan shows... [10 Oct 2001]
BT and Oracle launch ASP offensive
News A study by Ernst & Young in June found that one of the barriers was that businesses don't trust ASPs to look after their data and business processes safely. Ernst & Young's research also discovered that a lack of... [25 Sep 2001]
