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.
The future direction of Toronto-based Call-Net Enterprises Inc. was thrown into doubt on June 15 when the firm announced it was in negotiations with Vancouver-based 360networks Inc. to sell fibre optic infrastructure in both Canada and the U.S. to 360.