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RE: Re: Article regarding Covisint purchase
I second the question. Hi, Rachel. New technologies that are rolled
out in a dumb or disruptive fashion can fail even if they have intrinsic
value. Did the paper products project impale itself on a cross of
XML? (Apologies to W.J. Bryan)
Ventro/ChemDex and all those others skidded too. But RosettaNet
thrives and I think CIDX, PIDX and AIAG's e-commerce efforts are doing just
fine. Maybe this tells us something about middlemen, not technology?
Cheers, Jamie, admitted XML junkie & standards executive
At 07:35 PM 2/5/2004, Rachel Foerster wrote:
>John, I'm curious....from your comments one could conclude that being
>XML-based/focused was the fatal flaw. Is this what you want to convey or
>were there other deficiencies that contributed to the failure?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: jgoetzman [mailto:
>Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 8:27 AM
>To:
>Subject: [EDI-L] Re: Article regarding Covisint purchase
>
>I agree with Tom - this isn't too surprising, especially after they sold
>off the auction business to FreeMarkets who has subsequently been acquired
>by Ariba (Is there a pattern here?). The whole industry owned consortium
>thing just hasn't seemed to click. Here in Atlanta, Omnexus just shut its
>doors. Omnexus was focused on the plastics industry * * *
>
>I spent some time at a paper and forest products exchange here in Atlanta,
>and a big part of their offering was a network to exchange XML
>messages. It shouldn't be too surprising to this group, but the XML
>exchange never took off and they had to retrofit and partner to enable the
>exchange of EDI, where they have been moving a pretty significant volume
>of traffic. * * *
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