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RE: ebXML & Microsoft's Business Collaboration Framework
Hmmmmm.......
Interesting that this should follow on to the tirade about DISA (X12)
charging for standards. I guess we now know how CEFACT gets its money. I
think I would rather have the users pay for the standards to support the
development of them, rather than have a few companies spend money so that I
can have something for free that may be tainted.
Now I don't know if Microsoft was trying to buy Ray and Klaus. And I don't
know if they even "turned their back on ebXML". What I do know is that they
received a lot of publicity out of the article.
It will be interesting to see if the NY Times writes about the outcome, or
if this was just an opportunity to go after Microsoft and IBM.
Dwight
>From: Bill Chessman <
>To:
>Subject: RE: [EDI-L] ebXML & Microsoft's Business Collaboration Framework
>Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 09:42:18 -0800
>
>I'm not sure it should be that puzzling. Seems to me (I don't recall the
>details too clearly) that just after the ebXML specifications were
>finalized, that IBM did it's best to distance itself from ebXML by helping
>to start up WS-I and carry the Web Services banner.
>
>Frankly, this rings of the aspect of standards that annoys me the most.
>Politics and competition. They say the beauty of standards is that there
>are so many to choose from. That's because, when you get right down to it,
>there isn't a single business that's in it for altruistic reasons...they're
>looking for their niche, their advantage. And if that means changing sides
>or doing end runs around the other guy, then that's what they're going to
>do. On the other hand, the fun part is watching everybody do the next big
>thing gavotte every 6-18 months.
>
>Best regards,
>Bill Chessman
>Inovis(tm), Inc.
>(Opinions are my own and not necessarily reflective of my employer or
>anyone
>else in the whole wide world for that matter.)
>
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