WIlliam > Gosh, $38,000/mo. for "occupancy" does seem high. Even for the > Washington, DC area. Maybe you have to take into consideration golden > parachutes for past executives when looking at that 1.5 million dollars > in salaries & compensation at DISA; it's extremely unlikely the worker > bees are benefiting by the largesse.
Perhaps the strings on those golden parachutes should be cut ;-) > "We'll ignore the conflict of interest that occurs when these same > companies become the only source of certification for the standard (like > AS2)." There's absolutely no requirement that vendors achieve > "certification" for their AS2 software. But I can see the value to the > potential customer buying AS2 software - who's about to let go of > anywhere from $2500 to half a million dollars for a pig in a poke - to > know that the software has been "vetted" - somewhat - by an "impartial" > organization like the Drummond Group. I agree that certification should not be mandatory, but when big players like WalMart make it mandatory, the market changes. You've got the pig in a poke analogy backwards. The software is very expensive because Drummond Group charges over $60,000 for certification (and then many thousands additionally per year). This makes it very difficult for smaller companies to develop & sell AS2 solutions for less money. If the certification was eliminated (or price drastically reduced), there would be a lot more people developing solutions, which would drive some of the costs down. It's really unfortunate that companies like Ipswitch (who make WS_FTP) have not branched out from ftp to http and produced something like WS_HTTP. I'm all for EDIINT because it will eliminate very costly VAN charges, but the prices for AS2 software make penetration into the majority of small/medium size businesses very difficult. The thing that really bothers me (can you tell?) is that the EDIINT/AS2 is supposed to be a public, open standard, like X12. I'll have to do more research into the Open AS2 project... Earl Wertheimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.spe-edi.com ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/OIFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> . Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Access the list online at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
