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Sunday, September 28, 2003
ASPs Off Life Support!
This isn't new news, but it's still a positive message worth sharing: It appears that application service providers (ASPs) are not only surviving, but thriving, to boot.
Isn't it nice to hear refreshing stories about Internet-based companies instead of the same old rehashed junk about dot-com doom and gloom? It's amazing how reporters relentlessly hammered away on the same message that the dot-com boom was a temporary moment in time whose golden age has passed? It's as if they were trying to atone for their "irrational exuberance" over the boom. Today, however, most analysts finally agree that it's a matter of when, not if, Internet-based companies start showing huge profits thanks to their inherent advantages over shrink-wrapped software providers. Salesforce.com, the poster child of healthy ASPs, might even go public next year! How '90s of them.
And when Google finally IPOs, the lid will undoubtedly come off of this burgeoning retro trend. You can just feel it, can't you? Let's hope this time, however, investors and analysts are a bit more restrained in their proclamations of the next big thing.
Posted by
Cory Kleinschmidt
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