Hey Walter, A quick note on how the Drummond Group works. Generally there is a call for testing for AS1, AS2, AS3, etc. Companies that want to test can and must pay the fees. DGI tests a few times a year. If you are not in the current testing phase, your product is not listed on their site even though a B2B company may have tested and passed in the past. Some companies don't feel they need to keep testing and paying the large fees if nothing has changed in their software. These large fees raise the cost of the software to the business consumer. As you can see, in order to be listed on their site, B2B companies must keep testing, even though the law of diminishing returns can be exponential (meaning you are not adding any more value to your product but may be adding value to a newbie who has never tested. The newbie captures the most gain out of this testing). When that happens, for those who already tested and are in the current testing phases, the only return for the investment would be the marketing that is provided by listing B2B products and names on DGI's web site. When a new change comes out in your source code, it has to be tested again to be DGI certified. If there are no changes to your code and you have passed all the testing phases, in say the first quarter of 2005, the code is still certified for that version of EDI INT. Because it was 2005, or early 2006, your code will not be listed on DGI's site. DGI's site is a little misleading in this respect by not posting those who have tested and passed but have had no code changes. The bottom line is that you should keep this in mind in your search and do not rely on Drummond Group's web site as a reliable source of all those who have passed (all those that have passed are, in fact, interoperable) and are certified. Remember the big purpose of "certification." The purpose is to make sure that a B2B product in a certain protocol, such as AS2, can "talk" to every other AS2 product in the market. One could argue that that company has not tested with a newbie company; however, the transitive property applies here, i.e. if A=B and B=C, then A must = C. What this means is that a 2005 certified B2B product will work with the newbie company that is now testing their product. If you find a product you are interested in and want to confirm certification simply contact DGI and they should be able to give you the date the product was certified and at what version of the software. My recommendation is to contact both entities (DGI and the B2B company) to ensure checks and balances. Good luck, Shan
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of w_cohen99 Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 8:22 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [EDI-L] Re: Reducing/eliminating our EDI VAN Freeas2 will not help me, as it is not compliant, a tleast not via Drummond Group. Walter --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:EDI-L%40yahoogroups.com> com, Earl Wertheimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Walter > > > My top 5 TPs state that I must buy a compliant (UCC / Drummond > > Group) EDIINT product in order to go AS2 with them and most of these > > products are rather pricey. For instance Inovis BizConnect is > > $4,500 for up to 25 TPs and $900/yr maintenance plus $1k remote > > install. Anyone making use of any other 'reasonably priced' EDIINT > > products? > > http://www.freeas2. <http://www.freeas2.com/order.aspx> com/order.aspx > 25 licenses (NOT TPs) for $999.00 > > the 1st is free ;-) > > > Some TPs may require 2 licenses. Keep that in mind. > > Earl Wertheimer > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.spe- <http://www.spe-edi.com> edi.com > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ... Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Job postings are welcome, but for job postings or requests for work: <JOBS> IS REQUIRED in the subject line as a prefix. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
