Well, you obviously score low on reading comprehension, read it again and
you'll see that is the exact point I make, EDI won't die, it'll just
change to adapt to the commodity XML transport.
At 07:05 PM 8/24/00 -0400, Bill Oskowski wrote:
>This is a ridiculous analogy. EDI is adapting just like XML. Why must one
>die for the other to live?
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Brad Hodges [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 12:53 PM
>To: martin; kurt Svensson; Paul Williams; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Cc: rachelf; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: RE: Re[2]: Is the Internet/XML Going to Kill EDI?
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>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:
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> >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.
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> >-----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?
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> >PaulPaul Williams wrote:
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> > >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
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> >
> >Kurt Svensson
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