found this one on geeknews: “A couple of months ago, as you all may remember, Scour Exchange took a dive, but said they were planning a resurgence … Anyway, Scour has finally released the beta software.”

“Despite the barrage of criticism and the financial knocks ASPs have had to endure, the industry is set to grow enormously over the next few years.”

“By 2005, global revenues for the ASP industry will amount to $24bn, representing annual growth of 89 per cent, according to research group IDC.”

From: ASP Still Going Strong

“Web collaboration ASPs provide a useful, rapid approach to implementing a collaboration strategy that reduces costs while increasing knowledge exchange and accessibility.”

“… estimated spending on Web collaboration ASPs is expected to climb with a growth curve that reflects the overall ASP marketplace. In 1999 IDC estimated that $250 million was spent on outsourcing collaboration. By 2004, the firm believes the figure will reach $2 billion worldwide.”

“The business benefits of leveraging a Web collaboration ASP far outweigh the drawbacks. With the services available today, companies can increase communication internally and externally. In addition, the investment in the internal server infrastructure needed to support collaboration is greatly reduced, if not eliminated.”

What is VNC? … it looks like a multi-platform light-weight and free version of pcAnywhere, but don’t take my word for it …

“VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is, in essence, a remote display system which allows you to view a computing ‘desktop’ environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures.”

From: VNC – Virtual Network Computing from AT&T Laboratories Cambridge [thanks john]

“Wall Street’s interest in P2P comes after a decade of struggling to make so-called client-server networks handle the massive data-crunching jobs necessary to calculate changes in billions of transactions and millions of client portfolios.”

“Peer-to-Peer software companies are beginning to roll out new trading, collaboration and content management applications as the technology looks to prove itself in the world of business-to-business computing. "

“P2P software vendors and users are also looking at knowledge management, or making content more accessible. It’s one area in which analysts have praised the technology.”

From: Peer-to-Peer seeks B2B niche

this is actually sweet… “BadBlue provides searching, sharing, peer-to-peer (P2P) and customizability in a tiny footprint. Live sharing of Excel and Word data is supported. In addition, PE is perfect for web application development and deployment with its full-featured support of tools like CGI, ISAPI and PHP.”

“The architecture of P2P Content Networking mirrors the architecture of most businesses, namely one that is decentralized and distributed. Because of this, businesses are using it to cut costs, make employees more effective and improve customer service.” [thanks per]

From: Will P2P work in the enterprise?

wow, this sux … “Winstar on Wednesday said it has filed for Chapter 11 federal bankruptcy protection and filed a lawsuit claiming Lucent Technologies breached a partnership agreement.”

From: Winstar files for bankruptcy, sues Lucent – Tech News – CNET.com

“Uprizer Inc., the peer-to-peer upstart of Freenet founder Ian Clarke, today picked up a $4 million in funding from chipmaker Intel Corp. and other investors.”

From: Ian Clarke’s Uprizer Gets $4 Million