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RE: GIS
--- Paul McTeigue < wrote:
> If you keep your translator limited to translating,
> then you you have
> the following benefits:
>
> - loosely-coupled architecture allows you to easily
> change products.
> - if the database server or database server machine
> is down then there is no
> impact on EDI operations.
> - de-bugging is vastly easier.
> - ability to add functionality is greatly increased
> if using scripts or a
> programming language.
Sorry I am just getting around to responding to this.
Look, if you move to GIS (which is not just a
translator but a complete B2B environment, workflow)
it would be pretty silly not to use ODBC (instead of,
as Paul suggests, keeping the translator decoupled and
maintaining seperate scripts) . I mean if you are
going to make that argument then you could make the
same argument about using the FTP adapters etc in GIS,
because obviously if ever you
move off GIS you would have to rewrite scripts, etc.
In other words, if you are worried about the fact that
at some point moving to another translator, then I
would advise that you not purchase GIS and go with
some stand-alone translator, since the real power of
GIS is that it is an integrated environment.
So either commit to GIS or dont, but if you are going
to use GIS, then recognize that you are going to have
to trade off some independence for facility. The same
holds for any of the other integral B2B systems like
Web Methods, etc.
-Thomas
<<We are at such a point in mankind's evolution where changed conditions
invalidate all our policies that have been so successful even in the recent
past, and that presumably have constituted the ideal response to a presumably
unchanging and unchangeable human condition. No wonder we are stupefied and
confused-but our mistake is the same which many cultures have made before us,
namely to force a rigid model upon a fluid reality.
Erich Jantsch - "Design for Evolution: Self-Organization and Planning in the
Life of Human Systems"
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