Copyright 2002 by
Prentice Hall, Inc.
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Applications
Service Providers
ASPs
are companies that rent software applications
over the Internet.
Advantages: applications running in a
short time and little initial
investment
Disadvantages: negotiating service level
agreements and support during
downtime
n Types of ASPs (see Figure 9-6)
nEnterprise
nGeneral Business
nSpecialist
nVertical