Gervas Douglas forwarded: > > The answer is a canonical business model, defined as an information > model that represents the inherent business concepts without regard to > either individual use or hardware or software implementation.
Here we go again (UBL anyone?). This seems incredibly naïve to me. EDIFACT metadata may be the closest we've come to a "universal" set of cross-industry semantics (despite the fact that its extended and changed by most of the organizations using it). John Evdemon Microsoft
