Active Server Pages, Microsoft's technology to enables HTML pages to be dynamic and interactive by embedding scripts, i.e. either VBScript or JScript, Microsoft's alternative of JavaScript. Since the scripts in ASP pages (suffix .asp) are processed by the server, any browser can work with ASP pages regardless of its support for the scripting language used therein. An ASP Tutorial, ASP Developer Network, Lots of ASP Links.

Application Service Provider – A company that offers organizations access over the Internet to applications and related services that would otherwise have to be located on site at the organization's premises.

Active Server Pages, introduced by Microsoft in the mid-1990s. This is the standard programming system for Internet applications hosted on Windows servers. It is bundled with Internet Information Server (IIS) when you buy Windows. The fundamental idea is that you write HTML pages with little embedded bits of Visual Basic, C# or other languages, that are interpreted by the server.

(Active Server Pages)

(1) Applications that generate dynamic content within Web pages using Jscript code or Visual Basic.
(2) By Microsoft. An open, compile-free application environment in which you can combine HTML pages, scripts, and ActiveX server components to create powerful Web-based business solutions. (These pages use the extension .asp)

(Application Service Provider) An organization that hosts software applications on its own servers within its own facilities. Customers access the application via private lines or the Internet. Also called a "commercial service provider." With the advent of the Web browser as the universal client interface, the ASP market is expected to grow rapidly.

Application Service Provider. An Internet Service Provider (ISP) who also sells application software that runs behind the web servers at he hosting service. ISPs provide minimal applications like email and some file storage. Also Active Server Pages, Microsoft's name for a leading server-side applications development platform.

Application service provider: a company that provides remote access to applications, usually over the Internet. ASPs are used when an organization finds it more cost effective to have someone else host their applications than to install, implement, and maintain the application at their own facility. The applications can be as simple as access to a remote file server, or as complex as an enterprise management system, accessed through a standard browser. Most ASPs provide the servers, network access, and applications for a monthly or yearly subscription fee. Nova CTI

Active Server Pages, which provide web developers with a way to build web applications. The embedded scripts can be written in any language and processed by the server when the file's URL is requested.

Application Service Provider - A company that offers individuals or enterprises access over the Internet to applications and related services that would otherwise have to be located in their own personal or enterprise computers. ASP services are an alternative for smaller companies with low budgets for information technology, as well as larger companies as a form of outsourcing. OR Active Server Page - An HTML page that includes one or more scripts (small embedded programs) that are processed before the page is sent to the user. Typically, the script in the Web page at the server uses input received as the result of the user's request for the page to access data from a database and then builds or customizes the page on the fly before sending it to the requestor.

A language for creating dynamic applications. ASP can stand for Application Service Provider or Active Server Pages. An Application Service Provider offers access to applications and related services on a rental basis via the Internet.

Active Server Page Application Service Provider

(Application Service Provider) Companies who sell, support, and manage applications that are hosted on the Internet on behalf of remote end users.

Active Server Pages. Active Server Pages is an open, compile-free application environment in which you can combine HTML, scripts, and reusable ActiveX server components to create dynamic and powerful web-based business solutions. Active Server Pages enables server-side scripting for IIS with native support for both VBScript and JScript.

Application Service Provider.

Application Service Provider. An extension of the ISP (Internet Service Provider) business offering web-based applications as well as Internet access. Proposed for applications that are most useful when data is shared among a group of users, such as calendaring, or applications that are too expensive or infrequently used to be cost-effective for small companies, such as complex tax planning software.

Active Server Pages Technology designed by Microsoft as an alternative to CGI scripts for creation of interactive Web content, especially when it involves interaction with databases and other programs. ASPs have VBScript or Jscript code embedded in the HTML. One of the major parts of the .NET initiative is ASP.NET, a new version of Active Server Pages.

ASP - Active Server Pages (ASP). ASP files, which provide Web developers with an easier, faster, and more powerful way to build Web applications, are regular HTML pages with embedded scripts. These scripts can be written in any language and processed by the server when the file's URL is requested. Source: http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/exec/overview/changed.asp

Third parties that manage and distribute software services to customers from a central data facility. Clients "rent" instead of buy applications for many back-office and e-commerce applications, including e-commerce, messaging and other Web hosting services.

Applications Service Provider

An Application Service Provider or ASP sells software as a service. Perhaps the most widespread example of ASPs are web hosting companies. Instead of buying your own web server and the software for it, you can rent space on the servers maintained by the web hosting company. The benefit is that end users save on the hardware, software and maintenance costs. The tradeoff is that ASPs cannot provide the same customization available when an application is running in house. Large software companies such as Microsoft, Oracle and SAP are now rushing to offer their products through ASPs. Many companies are now considering outsourcing their most complicated software packages such as human resource software.

ASP - Active Server Pages (ASP). ASP files, which provide Web developers with an easier, faster, and more powerful way to build Web applications, are regular HTML pages with embedded scripts. These scripts can be written in any language and processed by the server when the file's URL is requested.

A specification for a dynamically created Web page with a .ASP extension that utilizes ActiveX scripting -- usually VB Script or Jscript code. When a browser requests an ASP page, the Web server generates a page with HTML code and sends it back to the browser. So ASP pages are similar to CGI scripts, but they enable Visual Basic programmers to work with familiar tools.

Active Server Pages enable web developers to make their sites dynamic with database driven content. The code is mainly written in VB Script, and it is produced on the server of the web site instead of the browser of your web site visitors. The server reads the ASP code and then translates it to raw HTML. This means that the web site owner doesn't have to worry about the visitor having the right tools to view the the web site's dynamic content. The only downfall to ASP is that since it is run from the server, it takes longer for the pages to load because there are more steps involved in translating the code.

Active Server Pages. (This might be a little confusing because ASP also stands for 'Application Service Provider'). ASP is a Microsoft technology that runs inside Windows 2000 or Windows XP.

(Active Server Page) A method for creating programs that run on a Web server, first available on the Microsoft Internet Information Server 3.0. See also IIS.