ASPs

Independent ASPs were announced and made available in V5R1. The initial introduction of IASPs was limited to IFS objects. As such, iSeries customers started using this concept for Domino, Web serving applications, and Integrated xSeries Adapters servers. The aim of this paper is to provide one with an understanding of the performance implications when one decides to move the applications to Independent ASP. tech news

Is the marriage between (e-)Learning and the Application Service Provider (ASP) really such a happy one, and is this a marriage based on community of property or a contract of marriage? ASPs were heralded as one of the leading developments in the ICT sector. Making applications available to multiple users from a single platform based on internet technology would ultimately make infrastructure costs transparent and even allow them to be forecast for future years. tech news

Moving to ASP.NET examines trends in the adoption of ASP.NET, and provides guidelines for selecting the migration approach that best meets specific business needs. Moving applications to the .NET framework offers businesses a variety of benefits, including enhanced performance, scalability, interoperability and ease of maintenance. For some businesses those benefits may be best realized through a comprehensive migration, but for many others an incremental approach is more suitable. This white paper details how these factors contribute to determining the best migration approach, and outlines the main phases of a migration with guidelines for the percentage of overall project effort that should be allocated to each. tech news

Infoseek Co., Ltd. (Infoseek) is a Japan-based company that provides the comprehensive information search service "Infoseek", a useful, high-quality search engine and content service. Approximately 14 million people use Infoseek monthly (March 2003), and its home page gets approximately 30 million hits per day, making it the second largest search engine in Japan. Infoseek's Technology used the technical expertise of Intel Solution Services consultants to help them lead the development of Infoseek's low-cost, high-performance Application Service Provider (ASP) search engine, which was built on an Intel Architecture (IA) based server. tech news

Founded in 1999, eTapestry.com was the first web-based donor-management application for non-profit organizations. Most non-profits are small to midsize organizations that rely mainly on volunteer labor to support their business infrastructure. Most cannot afford to implement or maintain their own IT system beyond a few stand alone computers. eTapestry provides an easy-to-use, relatively inexpensive web-based fundraising application that can be accessed anywhere, at anytime. It was built using the Forte for Java, Internet Edition as the integrated development environment (IDE) and is deployed on Brokat's Gemstone/J application server. tech news