BSP vs IAC

Dear Sirs,
I wonder what the main things that separate these technologies are? Would it be possible to do the same things with the BSP as with the IAC. Does there exists a good comparison for when to choose one over the other?
The reason I ask is because we have a solution running against a CRM server (through EP) consisting og 40 BSP applications (iviews) and one IAC application (iview). If we could have rewritten the IAC application to BSP, we would be able to eliminate the ITS server for the CRM server (which offcourse would save money)
Or are BSP and used for totally different areas, so that there is impossible to rewrite a BSP application to IAC.
I have browsed the documentation for both, are unable to say something about the interoperability of the two.
Best regards,
Jørgen

BSP- its like asp or jsp where in BSP the server side code is written in ABAP to generate html pages.
ITS IAC - this requieres ITS to tranlate SAPGUI stuffs to html . What IAC offers is automatic conversion of SAPGUI whereas in BSP you have to code everything yourself, but the downside is you dont have much control over the look and feel manipulation of IACs
i dont know whether any comparison exists
Or are BSP and used for totally different areas
both IAC and BSP are used to webenable SAP user interface
Regards
Raja

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