Dom in recent years, with the rapid development of web technology, ASP (application Service provider) has received more and more attention as a new service field. Although globally, the current ASP is still in the initial stage of development, but according to IDC forecast, in 2003, ASP's turnover will rapidly expand to 4.5 billion U.S. dollars. So what are the advantages of the rapidly growing ASP market in the world's leading electronic collaboration platform, Lotus Domino, which now has a broad user base in the world and at home?
First, from the point of view of software requirements, the most important thing for ASPs is to have a platform for development and implementation of managed applications, which has at least one of the following basic requirements: first, the ability to provide browser-based customer access, and customers can easily access hosted or leased applications from any client Second, server applications can support the ability to build and run multiple applications on a single server; Third, the server should have sufficient reliability to ensure that the ASP users can access the management applications at any time; four, the server must have a sound security system, can provide multi-level security protection from server to application itself; Finally, the server should have a very high performance, not because of the rapid changes in the number of terminal access users to produce drastic applications; At last, the server provides convenient management tools, easy to manage, including logging and billing functions, directly provide basis for ASP's charges.
From these requirements, Lotus Domino has been fully prepared for the development and operation of ASP's application software, and provided the necessary conditions for ASP software application platform. First, Domino combines leading communication capabilities with the full support of the latest Internet messaging standards, providing a highly manageable, highly reliable communications infrastructure for all sizes, including e-mail, Web Access, online calendar and group scheduling security, collaborative workspaces, Bulletin boards and newsgroups, which are widely supported for terminal access such as Lotus Notes, Web browsers, Microsoft Outlook, pad, and various mobile or wireless devices, allowing users of all types of terminals to be able to send and receive information securely, anytime, anywhere. In addition, Domino is an open, secure collaborative and Web application development platform that provides a comprehensive range of application services, including messaging, workflow, content management, security, Web publishing, and so on, allowing ASPs to quickly build and manage integrated collaborative work solutions. The integrated functionality of Domino's relational database, which stores the key business data in the background, adds more power to the ASP's e-business applications. In addition, Domino provides a powerful cluster service for both uninterrupted access and the most high-performance ASP services under any circumstances, in a Domino cluster, a copy of the application is continuously synchronized by transaction, and if one of the servers fails, the user is immediately transferred to another alternate server. At the same time, workloads maintain a dynamic balance throughout the cluster, providing stable performance even during peak visits.
domino is a leading and mature technology based Internet integration platform that supports browser users, and the information in applications is completely dynamic and interoperable. Domino's scalability also grew 10 times times faster with the release of the version, Domino R5 currently supports 10,000 concurrent users, and cluster technology enables a "horizontal" extension, leveraging Lotus's managed management system, Domino can manage a number of different organizations in one directory, each with its own access control list, access to its own organization's applications and data, and multiple stand-alone copies of applications on a single server. At the same time, Domino's activity log and billing capabilities provide a powerful help for the ASP to understand and count the usage of the application and the utilization of the resource in a timely manner. Therefore, Domino has the advantage of not being a substitute, whether it is a platform for ASP software applications or providing communication and collaborative applications.
On the other hand, in order to effectively help the ASP to easily configure, lease and manage collaborative application solutions to meet the rapid development needs of the Collaborative application ASP market, Lotus Company continuously improve and fully implement the ASP strategy plan, providing a set of flexible support ASP business model of the technology and plan, Includes details on technology, pricing, and business partner programs, transforming all products into ASP-ready solutions. In terms of pricing plan, Lotus provides a flexible ASP price system to meet the special requirements of the new ASP business model for flexible pricing system. On the partner side, Lotus and its parent company IBM jointly drives a variety of ASP initiatives, including the Managed services provider program, the Lotus Technology Services Quick Launch program, and the ASP Prime, which closely combine the software, hardware, and services provided by Lotus, IBM, and many of their partners Provides substantial help for enterprise users to quickly play the commercial potential of rental and subscription application models. At present, any user participating in the Ibm/lotus PAP program can entrust the Lotus service to a partner for hosting after they have purchased the license for Lotus products. "Our goal is to become the premier technology provider for the collaborative application of ASP market, providing our ASP and ISV partners with the technology and services they need to accelerate their successful hosting of collaborative application projects," Lotus CEO and CEO Al Zollar said. "Three of people began to be impatient-Atang the toilet for too long!" Although the said has played 32 consecutive laps, everyone is very tired, but the holiday for a few days in a row, speak well, at least 96 laps, only played One-third, and "war" intense, climax repeatedly, chips in front of four people move to turn, winning and losing difficult points, 32 laps, take a break, everyone is high, eager to immediately put into " Battlefield ", ah Tang but fondle Belly said belly pain, into the toilet.
