From: Trevor Jackson <tjackson@bmj.com>
To: Douglas Carnall <dougie@carnall.org>
Date: Friday, May 10, 2002 3:02 pm
Subject: Re: Applications service providers: possible website of the week?

Dear Douglas

Thank you for these suggestions. I think they sound really good. And if there
isn't a peg for us to cover them in the form of a website of the week, we could
just run them in the form of a straight website review. Could you do about 400
to 450 words in total, and I can either hold it until there is a WoW peg or use
in the next few weeks? As usual, we can pay 100.

I look forward to seeing you around next week.

Take care

Trevor

Douglas Carnall wrote:

> Hi Trevor,
>
> I often think of you, as each time I address an email to Trevor Parsons your
> name pops up first :-)
>
> I'm going to be in the BMJ office next week as it happens, but on my cyber
> travels I've come across a couple of sites that might make a nice WoW,
> combined with a brief discussion of the trend towards application service
> provision (ASP) as the business model of the future.
>
> The two illustrative sites outsource the control of the supply of doctors'
> time. One is a locum site for GPs: http://www.locum123.com; the other
> enables on-line rota booking for doctors in hospitals;
> http://www.rotadoc.com.
>
> I have no axe to grind for either site, other than that I think they are
> interesting examplars of the future. They typify niche products closely
> oriented to a particular application, and are analogous to what the big boys
> are doing a more generic way (see for example
> http://www.oraclesmallbusiness.com/ or Microsoft's .NET malarky)
>
> I know you'd want to link it with a topical item in the journal. I don't
> think there's any particular rush to do it. (And no hard feelings if you
> don't want to touch it at all).
>
> Best wishes
>
> D.
>
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