We too dumped GXS, and later Inovis. I'm surprised they held on to the GXS name, though; I expected they were trying to buy back some respect, and they were going to hang the Inovis name over the door instead, but that doesn't seem to be what happened. Looks like they just needed to buy another company's network so they could have one that worked longer than 3 weeks at a time. If it hadn't been so frustrating at the time, it would have been comical how many times folks posted on this list, "Oh crap, is GXS down again? Really?" I'm shocked anyone actually uses them at all these days, even if their uptime has improved.
Travis- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Samantha Scott" <[email protected]> To: "Todd Gould" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, June 5, 2013 9:05:34 AM Subject: Re: [EDI-L] <EVENT>GXS to Terminate Loren Data Interconnects - March 4, 2014 First they came for the communists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the socialists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me. - Martin Niemöller At Yankee Candle I have removed GXS from every possible vendor relationship we had due to their extremely poor VAN uptime and utterly dreadful customer service. I replaced them as a VAN with Inovis and when they bought Inovis I got rid of them too. When I took over our EDI business in the UK, GXS was the first to be jettisoned. They did not hesitate to try to hold our business hostage at various places along the way, unsuccessfully. I would not have them back as any sort of business partner at any time, ever. On Jun 5, 2013, at 9:45 AM, Todd Gould wrote: > I am overwhelmed by the letters of encouragement I have already received; > however, I am also bitterly disappointed. > Everyone who has any concern over these actions by GXS needs to speak out > publicly, now. If you cannot go on the record representing your company, then > speak out for yourself. If you can’t do that, then make some noise at your > company so they understand what is going on, so they can speak out. Remaining > silent only supports GXS, tacitly, but support nonetheless. > If you are with a VAN and you currently have EDI Service Providers as > customers, be ready for a letter from GXS in the very near future banning all > EDI Service Provider traffic from transiting your TGMS and Inovis > interconnects. GXS is going to make your customers pay and connect to GXS > directly for all that traffic. Think about it. > If you work for an EDI Service Provider shouldn’t you be able to choose > whichever VAN you wish to route your customers’ traffic? Very soon your VAN > (if it is not GXS) will be told that your customers’ traffic can no longer go > over the TGMS interconnect, you will need to pay for another account on GXS. > And if you would rather have interconnects to each VAN, shouldn’t you be able > to do that on the same terms as any other VAN? Why made GXS king of deciding > who can play and who has to pay? > > If you are an end user, make no mistake, GXS is willing to interfere with > over 10,000 trading partnerships and all the commerce that represents in > order to control the market. These are your relationships, representing your > supply chain, your business. Do not let GXS use your business to harm > competition in this market. > If you are a GXS customer affected by this, call your account rep and ask > them why they are doing this. How is this serving me? Tell them you want your > trading partners to use whatever systems they want, and if that requires > interconnects to ECGrid or any other service provider, then GXS should put > them in place. > Not since AT&T v. MCI have we seen anything like this. It was bad for the > market then, it is bad for the market now. > If you don’t speak out, you are supporting GXS’s actions. > Now is the time. Make your voice heard. This is your market, not GXS’s. > > Regards, > > Todd Gould > President > Loren Data Corp. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [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 [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: [email protected] [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/
