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

[martin]

Hello Bill,   Your points are direct and well stated.  IMHO, there are forces to slow down the implementation of XML in EDI, primarily the big companies that own the various flavors, GE for one.  I do believe that XML EDI is providing drastic advantages to change.  The bottom line is that it is less expensive, easy to learn and work with.  The movement is towards XML EDI is quite obvious in my part of the country, The San Francisco Bay Area.  I travel to Latin America quite a bit and I hear if from EDI experts there that is only a matter of time for XML to dominate the EDI requirements in Latin America.  In Latin America unlike here, many companies can are starting with new infrastructures, and XML is ahead of traditional EDI in new EDI implementations.  Price is a big influential force that will tilt the EDI market to XML technology.  That is my take.     --Martin Ford     -----Original Message----- From: Bill Oskowski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 3:50 AM To: martin; kurt Svensson; Paul Williams; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: rachelf; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Re[2]: Is the Internet/XML Going to Kill EDI?   Why would you envision any movement. Yes XML will be used but companies have many other forces driving them than new technology, XML will need to provide dramatic and drastic advantages for companies to change.   -----Original Message----- From: martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 5:41 AM To: kurt Svensson; Paul Williams; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: rachelf; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Re[2]: Is the Internet/XML Going to Kill EDI?   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