Yes, Rachel I am finding that plethora already! :)
Thanks to everyone for their good responses. I have received even more responses
offline from various vendors. Far more data than I can easily assimilate or respond
to all at once. The gas industry reference is an interesting one. Other options such
as Templar and Cyclone look like promising products. There seem to be more than a
couple Internet mailboxing Java solutions as well as proprietary protocol solutions.
I was surprised at the speed with which sales people contacted me. I guess I should
have expected it. :) It's not that I don't appreciate the sales contacts, it is just
that I was more or less looking to find data from a non-vendor (non-money making
influence) technical source. Perhaps someone who had done some actual benchmarking of
various products/solutions from a neutral (critical thinking without vendor bias)
viewpoint weighing pros and cons and had written a report or white paper quantifying
the results.
I guess now that I have all these contacts, I'll be doing some of this investigation
myself over the coming weeks and months. When I know more I'll post the results here.
Thanks again for everyone's interest and responses.
Steve
PS. there is one area that only one person responded to and that is a comparison of
translations speeds EDI vs. XML. I would expect that it is likely that speeds are
similar between comparable products, but it would be good to have some feed back in
this area as well. If anyone has any real world numbers on that, I would certainly
like to see them.
At 07:52 PM 7/17/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Steve,
>
>I don't have any comparative information to share. However, there are many
>companies using the Internet to exchange EDI interchanges. I'd check out the
>Gas Industry reference. Plus, if you either posted a query to the EDI-L list
>or checked this list's archives, I'm sure you'd find a plethora of
>information to investigate.
>
>Rachel
Steve Bollinger 408-853-8478
Cisco Systems B2B Service Logistics Pjt
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