I don't think the EDI Van scenario is dead or dieing. There will always be
some companies just out of fear or stubbornness that will refuse to let go
of what has been working for years. Look at the mainframe and COBOL. When I
was in the Air Force in 1985, I was told to stop wasting my time learning
COBOL no one will be using it a year from now. Well here it is 14 years
later and COBOL is still here. XML is a great technology, but people have to
put it to work.
Smeade
-----Original Message-----
From: richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2000 4:35 PM
To: XML/edi Group
Subject: VAN's on the run
With the XML/Internet messaging lowering the costs of B2B
whats going to happen to the VAN model of charging for service
and message space charges ?
In the UK Britsh Telecom a EDI Van has just scrapped its �10 a month
service charge and replaced it by a �60 month. Is this a message that
EDI is dead for all other than large established EDI traders.
Is it time to get into XML/Internet messaging now before VAN's go
dinosaur ?
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