Author_Institution :
Concordia Univ., Montreal, Que., Canada
Abstract :
Built upon developments in selective outsourcing, application hosting and browser-based computing, the application service provider (ASP) model shifts the purchase of computing power from a product to a rented-service form. If it can overcome the challenges facing it, the ASP model will foster a new generation of distributed, component-based computing services characterized by finer computing granularity, global cooperation and specialization, multimedia data handling, binary integration, mobile computing and pervasiveness across a full spectrum of electrical and electronic devices. Applying generic network-centric computing will lead to a networked economy characterized by service integration
Keywords :
Internet; computer facilities; computer rental; online front-ends; outsourcing; application hosting; application service providers; binary integration; browser-based computing; computing granularity; distributed component-based computing services; electrical devices; electronic devices; generic network-centric computing; global cooperation; mobile computing; multimedia data handling; networked economy; paradigm shift; pervasiveness; product form; rented-service form; selective outsourcing; service integration; specialization; Application specific processors; Character generation; Computer applications; Data handling; Distributed computing; Distributed power generation; Mobile computing; Multimedia computing; Outsourcing; Pervasive computing;
