Corporate Profile for Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP), dated Oct. 6, 1995.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The following Corporate Profile is available for inclusion in your files. News releases for this client are distributed by Business Wire and also become part of the leading databases and information services See Information Systems. . These include Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance News/Retrieval, Bloomberg Financial Markets, Reuter Company Newsyear, Reuter Business Briefing, DataTimes, Nexis, Dialog, NewsNet, America OnLine See AOL. , CompuServe, Delphi, Individual's HeadsUp and First!, Desktop Data's NewsEdge, UMI UMI University Microfilms International UMI United States Minor Outlying Islands (ISO Country code) UMI University of Miami UMI Universal Management Infrastructure (IBM) Data Courier, NewsBank, Information Access Company and many others. -0- Published date: Oct. 6, 1995 Company name: Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP)
Address: 545 Grover Road
Muskegon, MI 49442
Telephone No.: 616/788-5131 Executive Director: Jan Abbott Chairman of the Board: George Campbell President: Richard Harper Public Relations Contact: Mitchell Friedman Telephone No.: 415/824-1466 Industry: Software Company description: The Association of Shareware Professionals See ASP. is an international trade organization representing more than 1,500 authors, publishers, vendors and online distributors of shareware Software on the "honor system." The concept is that users try a product, and if they like it, they voluntarily pay a set registration fee or make a donation to the program's creator. There are tens of thousands of shareware programs; some fantastic, some awful. . Shareware is commercial software consumers can try before they buy. Shareware can be found on bulletin board systems (BBSes), commercial online services, and through computer user groups. The ASP was founded in 1987 for five reasons: 1) To inform computer users about shareware programs and shareware as a way to market and distribute software; 2) To encourage broader distribution of shareware through user groups and disk dealers who agree to identify and explain the shareware concept; 3) To assist ASP members in marketing their software. 4) To provide a forum for ASP members to communicate, share ideas and learn; and 5) To foster a high degree of professionalism among shareware authors by setting programming, marketing and support standards. The ASP sponsors forums on two online services, CompuServe (GO ASPFORUM) and Microsoft Network See MSN. Microsoft Network - The Microsoft Network (GO ASP). These forums offer news and information on ASP developments and provide consumers further information about shareware in general and specific programs. ASP also publishes quarterly a CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). with the latest shareware programs from its author members. CONTACT: Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP) |
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