UBL?? Why, it's the hottest new XML e-business variant around. It's the successor of xCBL from the defunct Commerce One. See Uche Ogbuji's recent article, "UBL 1.0 (plus ebXML Core Components and more)" at http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-think28.html.
Yes, I can see your point that EDIINT "seems like one step forward and one step backwards." See http://www.novannet.com/ediint.html. William J. Kammerer Novannet, LLC. Columbus, OH 43221-3859 . USA +1 (614) 487-0320 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Earl Wertheimer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "William J. Kammerer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "EDI-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, 10 January, 2005 01:21 PM Subject: Re: [EDI-L] Is EDI dead? William > What about VAN consolidation? Does anyone use EDINT with more than > two > trading partners? What about HIPAA? What about RFID? What's going on > with UBL? Anyone? Anyone? Class? Anyone? I think that the VAN consolidation (GE, Advantis, etc.) is a direct result of more clients finding cheaper alternatives to transmitting EDI. Can someone draw me a map of who is who? GE eats IBM, Inovis eats QRS, but QRS resells Advantis. Advantis is/was on IBM?? Does GE also control Advantis? This is a good thing (but confusing) for most of my clients. EDIINT is growing. We only connect to WalMart, Hudsons Bay and Dollar General (soon) right now, but the list is increasing. The transmission is cheaper, but the software is much more expensive and it seems counter-productive to have to connect directly to multiple AS2 servers. This seems like one step forward and one step backwards. We don't do HIPAA. I don't think RFID is going to have a big impact in EDI. The problem will be linking the RFID tag & containers, which is already being done with the labels. UBL? What's that? Earl Wertheimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.spe-edi.com . Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Access the list online at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
