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No more upgrades

By Heineman, Linda L
Publication: Outlook
Date: Saturday, January 1 2000
HEADNOTE

The Application Service Provider Alternative

Have you purchased software in the past few years only to find it obsolete within months, weeks or even days? Updates came out faster than ever before and everyone

wants the latest-greatest-fastest product available. Keeping up with replacements, upgrades and new software is often a difficult task-especially when you have so many tasks that you'd like to perform.

There's a new concept in computing that may allow you the freedom to use the latest software updates, without the painstaking research and hard drive overcrowding that is required today This new technology is known as application service provider (ASP) and it's the next generation of software for almost any application. The theory of ASP is quite simple: The software is run from a remote location, in most cases a Web site, with all of the programs and data files residing on a remote server.

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