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This InfoWorld article, "Software vendors face slow spending and changed market", deals a lot with the trend of ASP's beginning to eat into the Enterprise application market.
ASP means Application Service Provider (if I remember correctly), which means that your software is hosted and run by someone else. For the most part, this means it's a web-application or, at the most, a client with a very thin install. For example, blogger.com is an ASP: you don't have to install anything.
Any ASP talk is esp. Interesting because the product I work on, PATROL Express was originally designed as an ASP. Now, it's both an ASP and an application. Well, to say it's an "application" is more to say that you can run it as an ASP behind your firewall. You'd be surprised how many people overlook PATROL Express's ASP aspect.
Also, the quote below, from the article, fits well with many of the compelling reasons to do DIY-IT:
"With software, you're committing to a long program of spending -- implementation, roll-out, upgrades. Senior management seems to be very nervous about that," said AMR's Shepherd.
It's just too slow and annoying to spend big bucks on software: the process of getting money for it, and spending the time to install and configure it is too much. It's easier/cheaper just to download free stuff and fiddle around with it yourself. That said, to plug our product more, catering to that quickness and ease of setup is a huge part of what we try to accomplish with PATROL Express. Hence, Express.
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