In recent years, in the rapid development of Web technology, ASP (Application Services Supplier) has received increasingly widespread attention as a new service area. Despite globally, the current ASP is still in the primary stage of development, but according to IDC prediction, in 2003, the ASP's turnover will expand rapidly to $ 4.5 billion. Then, currently have a broad user-based world-leading world-leading electronic collaboration platform in global and China, which advantages have developed ASP market?
First, from software demand, the most important thing for ASP is to have a platform for development, implementation of managed applications. This platform has the following basic conditions: First, it is possible to provide a browser-based Customer accessibility, customers can easily access the managed or leasing applications from any client; second, server applications can support the ability to establish and run multiple applications on one server; third, the server should have enough Reliability, ensuring that ASP users can access management applications at any time; fourth, the server must have a complete security system, providing multi-level security protection from the server to the application itself; fifth, the server should have a high Performance, does not generate dramatic applications due to the rapid changes in the number of users to the number of users; Finally, the server provides convenient management tools, easy to manage, including logs and billing functions, providing a basis for the charge of ASP.
From these requirements, Lotus Domino has made the most sufficient preparation for ASP's application software development, providing the conditions required as an ASP software application platform. First, Domino combines leading communication functions with the latest Internet mail standards, providing high manageable, high-reliability communication infrastructure for all sizes, including email, web access, online Calendar and Group Schedule Safety, Collaborative Workspace, Board and News Group, etc. You can safely send and receive information anytime, anywhere. In addition, Domino is an open, secure collaboration and web application development platform, providing comprehensive application services, including messaging, workflow, content management, security mechanism, web publishing, etc., allowing ASP to quickly build and manage Integrated collaborative work solution. The integrated database of relational databases provided by Domino and the rear desktop business data, add more powerful features for ASP e-commerce applications. In addition, Domino provides powerful cluster services for ASP services that require uninterruptible access and highest performance, in the Domino cluster, the application's replica is continuously synchronized according to the transaction, if one of them The server has failed, and the user will move to another alternative server. At the same time, the workload maintains dynamic balance over the entire cluster, even if the peak is accessed, stable performance can be provided.
Domino supports the browser user, and the information in the application is fully dynamic, interactive. Domino's scalability also increases with the version upgrade, currently, Domino R5 supports the concurrent users of 10,000, and after clustering technology, "horizontal" expansion can be achieved by using Lotus managed. Management system, Domino can manage multiple different organizations in a directory, each organization has its own access control list, can only access the application and data of its organization, and multiple applications can be run on one server Independent copy. At the same time, Domino's activity logs and billing features provide significant help for the situation of ASP and statistical applications, and resources provide a powerful assistance. Therefore, whether it is a platform for ASP software applications or communication, cooperative applications, Domino has advantages that do not replace. On the other hand, in order to effectively help the ASP to configure, rent and manage collaborative application solutions to meet the rapid development of collaborative application ASP markets, Lotus continues to improve and fully implement ASP strategic plans, and provide a complete set of flexible Supporting the technical and planning of ASP business model, including the details of the technical, pricing, and business partnership plans, etc. In the pricing plan, Lotus provides a flexible ASP price system that meets the special requirements of the ASP new business model for flexible pricing systems. In partners, Lotus and their parent company IBM jointly promote multiple ASP programs, including: hosting service provider plans, Lotus Technical Services Express Planning and ASP Prime, these plans are closely combined with Lotus, IBM and their many partners. Software, hardware, and services, providing substantive help to enterprise users quickly play a commercial potential for rental and ordering the application model. Currently, any users who participate in the IBM / Lotus PAP program can entrust the Lotus service to provide partners for hosting after purchasing Lotus. Lotus President and CEO Al Zollar emphasized: "Our goal is to become the primary technology supplier of collaborative application ASP markets, providing our ASP and ISV partners to speed up the technology and services they can successfully manage collaboration applications." Three people have begun impatient - Tang Jin to the toilet is too long! Although it has been playing thirty-two laps, everyone has been tired, but the holiday has been a few days, it is good, at least ninety-six laps, only one-third, and "war" is fierce, climax, chips In the face of the four people, it is difficult to turn, the winning and negative points, after the thirty-two laps, take a break, everyone is fighting high, I can't wait to put "battlefield", but Tang, but I struck my belly, Toilet.
