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I completely agree. I doubt you could find a single student at Wash
U. that has any interest in doing EDI work. Ken is dead on accurate
about the technical move to XML--it will become harder and harder to
find people with an interest in EDI (it's not like people couldn't
learn it, they just won't want to). This is exactly the same as
COBOL. How many people actually want to use COBOL? Yet, a major
portion of code developed by financial institutions is in COBOL.
They are still in the process of converting that code to C++. Are
today's EDI reliant companies ready for this transition?
Brian
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> 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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