Patience is a virtue. Time and time again, the IT industry gives credence to this tired old adage. While early adopters struggle to exterminate the bugs in fresh-out-of-the-shrink-wrap applications and operating systems, fashionably late organizations sit back and wait for the dust to clear.nIn the case of the application service provider (ASP) market, organizations who have put off outsourcing applications until now will probably be glad they came late to the ASP party.
Leaders of Planet Project, sponsored by 3Com Corp. in Santa Clara, Calif., hoped to bridge the digital divide by sending out pollsters and 3Com employees worldwide to conduct polls on what the world thinks.