> I realize I am in the minority here when I say: Depending on the
application I honestly believe that many new trading partners are better off
with EDI, as painful as that may sound.
Steve,
You raise many valid points, but I keep coming back to another argument
every time I hear someone assert that XML/EDI offers no advantage over X12
or EDIFACT. In the overall scheme of things, EDI is only one part of the
complete picture of enterprise systems. X12 and EDIFACT are not standards
that will play a role in creating the next wave of Web and eBiz
applications.
XML is an enabling technology for feeding portals, for content syndication,
for delivering data to wireless clients, for marking up multimedia data
streams, for collaborative authoring, and so on.
Bottom line: every major corporation is going to have a cadre of developers
doing XML projects.
Today if you're staffing IT projects to build new applications, or buying
applications that come with source code, you look for Java and C++ instead
of COBOL and FORTRAN. It's harder to find people who can support legacy
technologies. The same applies to XML and EDI. Over time, it will become
increasingly easier to recruit XML gurus than EDI experts.
The arguments here remind me of similar arguments about Beta versus VHS,
OS/2 versus Windows, the Amiga versus Macintosh and PC, and so on. One
technology may offer advantages over another, but that doesn't guarantee
mindshare. That's the situation I see today with XML and X12/EDIFACT. The
move to XML as a building-block technology is a done deal. New development
will use newer technologies, but traditional EDI won't disappear overnight.
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