Here's a new one - all mention of EDI has been expunged: "XML E-Business Standards: Promises and Pitfalls," dated Jan. 5, 2000, by Robert Worden, at http://www.xml.com/pub/2000/01/ebusiness/index.html. It started off inauspiciously, with "Recent announcements by Ford and General Motors that they both intend to use e-commerce for all their supply procurements—in Ford's case worth $80 billion per annum—have been noted by some commentators as signaling the day when e-business came of age." How much of that $80 billion is being done by EDI today? Or are we to think that Ford still has legions of green eye-shades doing that procuring, waiting for the advent of XML to automate them out of their morass? And what's with this "per annum" bit? I always get suspicious when people use Latin; the good old Anglo-Saxon "yearly" would have had fewer syllables, anyway. William J. Kammerer FORESIGHT Corp. 4950 Blazer Memorial Pkwy. Dublin, OH USA 43017-3305 (614) 791-1600 Visit FORESIGHT Corp. at http://www.foresightcorp.com/ "Commerce for a New World" ======================================================================= To signoff the EDI-L list, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list owner: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/edi-l%40listserv.ucop.edu/
