Application Service Providers have burst into the E-connnerce scene in the last year, bringing with them the promise of bypassing expensive shrink-wrap software for downloadable, almost ftee, task specific software. This situation presents an opportunity for E-connnerce instructors to build quickly build an infrastructure for their courses,despitefewresourcesandlimitedcomputing personnel support. Thisarticlepresents anoverview of ASP tools to support e-connnerce classes and discusses the possibilities and issues related to their use.
Malu Roldan is on the faculty of San Jose State's Management Information Systems Department, College of Business. Her work on electronic commerce has been published in Communicationsofthe ACM, EDI Forum, and in the book TheSearchfor DigitalExcellence (McGraw-Hill). Professor Roldan's current research focuses on electronic COmmerce implementation, diversity issues in the information technology industry, and the application of emerging technologies in education.
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