ADVISORY/First Generation ASPs: What are the Missing Links?; Crosspoint Venture Partners Hosts Web Seminar on the ASP and VSP Debate.

Business Editors

ADVISORY...for Wednesday (March 21)

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MEDIA ADVISORY

WHAT: Crosspoint Venture Partners invites you to participate in an interactive
overview of the next-generation Application Service Provider (ASP) business
model. Summit Strategies' vice-president and service director Laurie McCabe
will join Crosspoint's general partner Bob Lisbonne and CEOs from the firm's
Vertical Service Provider (VSP) portfolio to discuss this emerging business
model in an interactive presentation. While the promise of ASPs - reduced
costs, efficiencies, increased flexibility - remains attractive to business
managers who depend on technology infrastructure for business operations, there
is a significant gap between promise and reality - at least in the
first-generation of ASPs. CEOs from DemandTec and Redspark will discuss how
they are different from traditional ASPs and the benefits they deliver for
their customers in retail and manufacturing segments. WHEN: Wednesday, March
21, 2001 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. PT WHERE: Register at:
http://www.cpvp.com/investmen ts/webinars/seminar2/register .html