Yeah, and that's kind of the point, Leah. The X12 standards live on. You don't need the X12 Committee to live on in order to update your version 002001 maps.
To Rachel's comment, the X12 Steering Committee routinely gets membership reports from DISA on X12's finances and membership. I can't speak to reports on DISA's finances and membership other than to say that I too don't recall seeing any recently. Mike ----------------------------------------- Michael C. Rawlins, Senior Software Engineer, GXS Sent from personal account On 6/30/2013 6:06 PM, Leah H wrote: > > Then why am I still updating maps for v 2001? :D > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Rachel Foerster" <[email protected] <mailto:rachel%40rfa-edi.com>> > Sent: 6/30/2013 6:01 PM > To: "'Klaus-Dieter Naujok'" <[email protected] > <mailto:news4me%40mail-etc.net>>; "[email protected] > <mailto:EDI-L%40yahoogroups.com>" <[email protected] > <mailto:EDI-L%40yahoogroups.com>> > Subject: RE: [EDI-L] Standards price change? > > Well, X12 has to find a sustainable business and revenue model, doesn't it > :-) especially with declining membership, consolidation and disbandment of > subcommittees, and declining sales of work products. Or course this is > only > my observation since it's been years since DISA shared any information > about > the status of the organization: e.g., number of members, revenues, > operating > expenses, etc. > > When real companies find themselves in this kind of a downward spiral they > either transform themselves or continue the death spiral. Many years > ago in > one of Peter Drucker's books I recall reading that the average life > span of > any organization is about 25 years - at which time it either transforms > itself, become acquisition target or goes out of business. Nothing lives > forever - does it :-)? > > Rachel Foerster > 847-872-8070 > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] <mailto:EDI-L%40yahoogroups.com> > [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:EDI-L%40yahoogroups.com>] On > Behalf Of > Klaus-Dieter Naujok > Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2013 2:57 PM > To: [email protected] <mailto:EDI-L%40yahoogroups.com> > Subject: Re: [EDI-L] Standards price change? > > On Jun 30, 2013, at 11:55 AM, Mike Rawlins > <[email protected] <mailto:mcr2%40rawlinsecconsulting.com>> > wrote: > > > As far as I know most commercial translator vendors don't buy the > equivalent of the standards on CD. They buy the "table data", which is > priced at $15,000 for members and $7,500 for non-members. The 20% > annual fee > for those products comes to $3,000 and $1,500 respectively. > > Mike, thanks again. > > This would bring my "example" cost for non-members to $42,000 ($15,000 > + (9 > x $3,000)) and $21,000 for members. Wow! Now we are talking! > > Klaus > > ------------------------------------ > > ... > 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/
