Can I suggest you all take a look at www.cluetrain.com - may help to answer
a lot of these issues.
Leon Benjamin.
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve L. Bollinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 19 March 2001 18:13
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Why 90 percent of XML standards will fail
At 04:26 PM 3/16/2001 -0800, Ken North wrote:
>I'm not attributing that decision to you, but presumably you recognize
>someone sees a benefit from using XML for trading relationships, or why
plan
>to migrate 200 trading partners to an XML-based model?
Correct. I am not in the majority in my positions. Most here believe in
what they read in the trade magazines.
>Perhaps there's another way to look at this -- has anyone said "In the next
>two years at Cisco, we plan to grow our X12 applications by an additional
>200 trading partners." That would certainly be counter to the trends being
>reported by organizations such as Forrester Research.
Of course not. We are already doing X12 with hundreds of TPs and doing
over 1 million X12 transactions over a VAN. There is a political push to
do all new work on the internet because of who we are and because of
reports like what you hear from Forrester Research.
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