The way I look at it is EDIINT is like buying a car and using VAN are like
leasing a car. People try to say one is better than the other in some way
across the board, but in the auto industry people agree that buying or
leasing works in different situations. With the VAN you pay as you go and
your TP management is done by the VAN. With EDIINT you buy software up
front and do you own TP management. Each will come out cheaper depending
on a number of factors like number of trading partners, personnel costs,
response time needed, etc.
Evolution does happen in the computer industry, just not as much as
the marketing would make you think. The evolution here is when VAN's where
first modelled the internet wasn't around as a business tool. Now it is,
which gives people another choice. As more people use EDIINT and the
software get's easier to use and the economies if scale come into play the
cost of entry into EDIINT software will be cheaper. For now VAN's have a
place and are my personal first choice for TP connectivity, it remains to
be seen how they will reinvent themselves in this evolving marketplace,
otherwise if they stand still, a EDIINT type connection model will be the
successor.
Regards,
-Steve
Travis Truax
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Subject: RE: [EDI-L] Is EDI dead?
01/11/2005 09:12 AM
>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.
I don't think the "connecting directly to multiple AS2 servers" is a big
deal, but the expense of the software is tragic. Perhaps no so much a step
back as a step forward into a pile of dog doo. There are a few open source
AS2 projects in the works out there, and when some of them are completed, I
think AS1,2,3... will be much stronger. The middle-men are eating all the
benefits.
TTx-
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