RE: Re[2]: Is the Internet/XML Going to Kill EDI?

[martin]

My prediction, and I back it up with my investment in companies that work with XML technology. The big boys of EDI will try hard to hold on to their market.  But I give them 5 years at the very most for them to have a significant share of the EDI business.  There is a great forward momentum of XML development by many companies that I can see an end to traditional EDI.  We are in a new economy.  It's wasteful to use traditional EDI.  It's more cost effective to use some form of EDI-XML.  In the mean time some big companies will be forced to use some form of middle ware between traditional EDI and EDI-XML. But sooner than later XML will dominate the EDI market.   It is simply wasteful to use traditional EDI flavors.       Martin Z. Ford, CEO Creating the Digital Community  (tm)   Hop Media, Incorporated P.O. Box 12593 122 Cuvier Street San Francisco, CA 94112   Tel: 415.333.5442 Fax: 415.680.1703   [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.hopmedia.com   London, England: (+44 207) 900.2434 Milan, Italy: (+39 02) 9544.1454 Paris, France: (+33 1) 5301.4531 Munich, Germany: (+49 89) 9218.5599     -----Original Message----- From: kurt Svensson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 2:22 AM To: Paul Williams; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: xmledi-group; rachelf; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re[2]: Is the Internet/XML Going to Kill EDI?   PaulPaul Williams wrote:   >We use tools for translation and transmission which are well established, >something which the XML world is lacking. There are a lot of XML systems available today. Some of them are easier to use than EDI systems   Kurt Svensson www.inobiz.se   ------ XML/edi Group Discussion List ------ Homepage =http://www.XMLedi-Group.org Unsubscribe =send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Leave the subject and body of the message blank Questions/requests: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To receive only one message per day (digest format) send the following message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], (leave the subject line blank) digest xmledi-group your-email-address To join the XML/edi Group complete the form located at: http://www.xmledi-group.org/xmledigroup/mail1.htm