Here is an interesting development:
HP announced a new strategic alliance with leading next-generation telco Qwest, including plans to set up an incubation programme dubbed the 'e-services garage' to support emerging e-service software companies. Qwest named HP as its preferred information technology supplier for both PC and Unix equipment and agreed to prototype and subsequently co-market e-speak services with HP.
The ASP market looks (with all the different apps) to be varied and BIG.
Also:
HP executives outlined three trends which they said would drive the application services marketplace:
The rise of business applications delivered as pay-as-you-go application services, which HP dubbed 'apps on tap'.
An explosion of specialised industry, application or company portals that host and integrate complementary services alongside content
The emergence of systems for "dynamic brokerage" on the Internet, automating the process of locating, purchasing and using online application services
E-speak, described by the company as "the universal language of e-services", is HP's technology designed to enable the last of the three trends. Previously codenamed Fremont, it consists of a set of programming interfaces, development and deployment tools, and provides a common interface for network-based services and service components to negotiate and interoperate with each other.
The company said that e-services would use e-speak to advertise their capabilities, to discover other services, and even to team up with each other to create new, compound e-services. A number of telcos and software companies announced endorsement for e-speak, while others announced pilot programmes based on the technology. HP expects to make e-speak freely available to developers on the open source model in the third quarter and will subsequently introduce tools, support products and consulting services for the technology.
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