Mercator is an excellent data mapping product but it is not an EDI
Translator. Mercator is a development tool useful in exchanging data
between various systems using many protocols. To obtain EDI management
capabilities you must add the Commerce Manager application. CM is a young
but maturing product. For example, it provides only the most basic
archiving capabilities(it saves files in a Zip file with no EDI oriented
retrieval). The learning curve for Mercator mapping may be longer than most
EDI translators and some mappers just never understand its object-oriented
basis. The cost is high and quality contractors difficult to find and that
includes Mercator Software, Inc., staffers. That said, I have used it for
two years and like it and expect to continue to make my living from it for
the foreseeable future. However, I would never recommend it to a site
without programmer-level mapper skills available and without requirements
that exceed just EDI. Note that Mercator Software, Inc., does not attempt
to market Mercator as an EDI translator.
GENTRAN:Server exists in both UNIX and WINNT flavors . They are totally
unrelated. Comments referring to one have no value regarding the other.
PaperFree looks good in demos but I haven't used it.
Although I have worked a several dozen Fortune 100 EDI sites (primarily
manufacturers) over the last five years, I have seen throughput an issue at
only one retailer.
Since the original questioner never mentioned anything about his
requirements, it is impossible for me to make any recommendation.
Jim Divoky
EC Solutions
2304 North Ridge Drive
Jefferson City, TN 37760-5320
Providing EDI/EC Consulting and Contracting
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----- Original Message -----
From: Rachel Foerster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2000 1:09 PM
Subject: Re: Which translator is "cream of the crop?"
> The two top flight products are Mercator and PaperFree. Both run on UNIX.
> You should seriously investigate these two products. They cannot be beat
for
> throughput performance.
>
> Rachel
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> |Which translator is considered the cream of the crop for unix
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> |that be Gentran:SERVER?
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> |Thanks,
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> |Gary Bligh
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