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Re: TECH
John
> Some friends and I are looking at writing a low cost alternative to a
commercial
> tanslation product. I have worked with Innovis, Sterling Commerce, and SPEDI.
In
> the last round of consuting I did for product selection, all of the products
> seemed to license at about 60K.
>
> Would anyone have ideas for requirements and usability standards for a low
cost
> alternative product? We are looking for input on PLATFORMS(OS's Supported),
FILE
> PROCESSING(quanitative data on disk requirements), would Open Source be a
> requirement? Is Open Source not acceptable in most businesses?
Open Source is acceptable, but would be a problem to find an existing project.
You would be better off writing your own. I've written 3 versions, on 2
platforms. The programming is pretty simple, and you get to keep what you
write.
I've got a version using a DOS database (DataEase) for small companies, and
another version written in Oracle PL/SQL that does bigger volumes.
The actual translation process is very easy if you also control the database
used to store the documents. Inbound documents are simple if the back-end
database tables correspond to the document structure. Outbound documents are
generated by a specification file that can be generated pretty quickly.
Unfortunately, linking the translator to the various different databases &
formats is a much more complicated job.
good luck..
Earl Wertheimer
http://www.spe-edi.com
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