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RE: X12 sees the writing on the wall.
Gentran Server for eunuchs? Did you think that up all by yourself? Good
lord. Don't give up your day job.
Knowing the fundamental difference between a discussion between open-minded
individuals and wasting my time on someone who thinks he knows all the
answers, I will bow out of this one.
BTW, I AM that "poor schmuck", genius.
Nice social skills, William. I was trying to discuss a topic, you turn it
into insults and condescension. No wonder you're having trouble getting
people to see things your way.
John Pavao
-----Original Message-----
From: William J. Kammerer [mailto:
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 11:46 PM
To: 'EDI-L Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [EDI-L] X12 sees the writing on the wall.
We just had a dialogue just last week about some poor schmuck who has
spent the last 11 years with a particular expensive proprietary EDI
system with onerous annual maintenance fees, "SC G:S for UNIX ECWB"
(which I take to be Gentran Server for eunuchs). And potential
employers don't want to touch him because he doesn't have experience in
their *particular* proprietary technology.
So that must mean the potential employer has bottled up the lifeblood of
his corporate data - or his maps - in some obscure proprietary format
that only certain gurus can unlock. I guess I would rather have my data
in XML - at least I could throw a couple of O'Reilly programming books
at new employees if they didn't already know open technologies like
XML, XSD, Perl and XSLT.
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