Commentary by Jim Blasingame
Jonathan and Jim begin this visit talking about Techies Day, which includes focusing on how to get more young people within the U.S. to focus on a technical career, as well as getting techies who live outside of the U.S. brought in to fill the hundreds of thousands of technology jobs that are currently vacant. The guys move on to discuss something called an ASP, which is Applications Service Provider. ASPs put together web-based business tools with high-end capability, and then make that available incrementally to small companies. Web-based capability is one of the examples of how small businesses can compete with the Big Guys without being big.