Hi Earl et al,
AS2 is not expensive – please check out N Software and even companies like IBM now have costs effective express AS2 packages. <http://www.nsoftware.com/order/options.aspx?part=BEJ9-V> http://www.nsoftware.com/order/options.aspx?part=BEJ9-V its $2500 for unlimited trade partners and they keep current with all the licencing stuff etc. Todd- for academic reasons what happens if SPS that is the gatekeeper at 100’s of Retail accounts say that they will not accept interconnects from GXS and I am sure we comeup with 100+ reasons of why 1) same latency bull%$# or 2) a low customer satisfaction score or 3) reliability issues. Then we would basically have the NFL and the AFL analogy – everybody on non-GXS VANs refuse to connect to GXS and vice versa. So if you have all the VAN’s on your side then why don’t you simply stop interconnects to GXS and then customers will have to have 2 VAN’s – one in the GXS world and the other in the non GXS world. As time goes by the GXS world will go the way of Betamax. My 2 cents Vijay From: EDI-L@yahoogroups.com [mailto:EDI-L@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Earl Wertheimer Sent: June 14, 2013 8:34 AM To: EDI-L@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [EDI-L] Re: Loren Data vs. GXS.... The EDI Saga... > If the biggest retailer in the world (Wal-Mart)has been using AS2 for > 10 years now without a hitch – then in my books the case for VANs > being easier to use and being more cost effective somehow does not > hold water. And before that Walmart forced everybody to use non-standard, expensive bisynch modems. Don't get me wrong. AS2 is great. It's free (except for ISP charges) and simple ...but it is more complicated to manage than a single VAN connection. Cost effective? You need to factor the management costs also. Tech changes the router, no more AS2. Certs have to be changed on a regular basis. Companies with a small volume still have to face these problems. We have seen a few people turned away from AS2 by exorbitant license fees. If a new partner is going to require a $1,000 additional license, you need to justify that cost. Earl Wertheimer ea...@spe-edi.com <mailto:earlw%40spe-edi.com> http://www.spe-edi.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ ... Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Job postings are welcome, but for job postings or requests for work: <JOBS> IS REQUIRED in the subject line as a prefix.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: edi-l-dig...@yahoogroups.com edi-l-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: edi-l-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
