Talk:Application service provider/Archives/2012
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References
Can someone provide references for this article? For example the provider types..I have never heard of the provider types that the article outlines. --Sleepyhead81 14:26, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
How does this concept relate to AJAX software? --Kris Schnee 06:36, 19 January 2007 (UTC) It doesn't - AJAX is a technology for making web pages more responsive/interactive.
How about the ASP evaluation guideline from Cisco Systems - where can I find it? --MJay84 13:26, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
Revisionist History
Could be I'm way off track, but it seems like Wikipedia should handle historical trends and transitions relatively gracefully. Most people in the industry view ASP as a direct precursor to SaaS, not the same thing. I agree the term has fallen out of favor, but what isn't being captured here is: 1) ASP was used heavily and had some fairly specific definitions in it's heyday ('98-'02 or so) and 2) there are key differences between most of the early ASP models and SaaS.
In other words, lumping them together is like lumping a mainframe and a PC together and saying they are both computers. Hey, they both have CPUs, disk, and RAM, right? ASP != SaaS and we should be capturing the primary history time period where ASP was in heavy usage, which pre-dates SaaS. If you look at some of the articles from the time period (pre Salesforce.com) you can see ASP meaning primarily to take off-the-shelf software and deliver it in a hosted fashion:
http://accountingsoftwareworld.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=65&Itemid=161 http://news.centurylink.com/index.php?s=43&item=1735 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/Editorial/Feature/Application-service-providers-Evolving-to-meet-market-needs-9187.aspx
This is why the early ASP models largely failed and why Salesforce.com was successful. They took a completely different track, writing software from ground up with multi-tenancy in mind and were able to offer much better value and so we have SaaS, a descendent of ASPs, but different from ASPs. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Randybias (talk • contribs) 16:38, 13 April 2011 (UTC)