So You Want to Outsource Your Messaging?
P. Hayes - November 20, 2000

Product Background

Application Service Providers have arisen on the Internet in response to such corporate messaging woes as support expenses, misbehaving application and server down-time. Assuming an organization ports all application functionality to an ASP, the only real concern for internal IT individuals would be ensuring a rich and stable connection to the Internet. ASPs use a "Thin Client" configuration, which means that any hosted application accessed by an end user, such as e-mail or word-processing application, is transmitted to the desktop via a series of streaming screenshots, thereby minimizing the need for excessive bandwidth and software installations on the client machine...