If you make the analogy between the industrial revolution and the electronic business/commerce revolution, EDI and VANs equals basic electricity flowing through wires. The internet is the 60Hz 120 volt AC power grid standard, and XML is the definition of the electrical plug standard. At some point during the prior revolution, it became totally impractical for anybody to draw power from anywhere other than the standard power grid. BUT!!!!, there were many electrical applications that required power other than 60Hz 120 volt AC, so they drew the raw power from the grid and converted and transformed the power into the format they needed. I think the same thing will happen in the electronic commerce/business space. XML will be the standard plug. The EDI world will simply at some point learn to adapt to the commodity power grid, (the Internet), but they may do so by simple conversion or adaption. There is still a long maturation process that has yet to occur in the XML space, but it will definitely happen. Once XML has matured, it will become very difficult to justify any new 'E' initiatives using anything other than XML. But that still does not mean that EDI has to at that point cease to work! If a huge corporation has a huge investment in an EDI infrastructure, they'd likely only bother to tinker with it enough so that it can utilize the standard information grid. Inside the corporation, they still see EDI or X.12 or whatever, but at some point they will on the fly transform to XML for no other reason that it was cost justified. At 02:41 AM 8/24/00 -0700, martin wrote: >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 > >image001.gif > >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/>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 > ><http://www.inobiz.se>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
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