At 12:57 PM 7/27/00 +0530, ashwani madan wrote:
>VANs will not perish
>I reinforce VANs will not perish,they will just mutate.
And they will mutate into something that will face direct competition from
the likes of Ariba & CommerceOne. It's funny, all these new dot com's
came out, got into business spaces they really didn't understand
(retailing for example), now they are dying because while they understood
WEB technology, they didn't understand the underlying business models they
were webifying. The same thing could hold true for VANs vs. e-commerce
portals, it's really way more about understanding the business of the
partners than it is about understanding WEB technology in general. I
think VANs that quickly retrofit their technology underpinnings to support
XML and the Internet along side of EDI and their VAN, then go out and
continue to serve their existing customers as before, will do just
fine. It's the likes of CommerceOne and Ariba that might face the same
fate that Amozon.com faces today.
Brad Hodges - Principal Systems Engineer
BEA Systems, (626) 794-9823, page 888-768-4403
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