Ready To Take On The ASP Market

摘要

The year ahead may prove to be Nancy Li's greatest challenge. Last August, Li left her position as Computer Associates' chief technology officer to become CEO of its latest initiative: iCan-ASP Inc. CA, among the world's largest software developers, charged Li with bringing customized service-level management, application provisioning, and operations management to application service providers.rnLi is very bullish on the ASP market, pointing to an International Data Corp. statistic predicting 91% growth to $8 billion over the next five years. "These numbers arernjust too conservative," she says. "They say the Internet came to its present state in seven years, compared to 25 years for desktops. ASPs are going to grow at an astounding growth rate. I don't want to do any projections, but this is going to become as pervasive as the Internet in a very short time."