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- From: <JEROME.YUROW@hq.doe.gov>
- To: <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 12:02:00 -0500
All this talk about finding a "killer ap" or even a "clever ap" for
XML has me puzzled. The most obvious "killer ap" for XML is as a
medium for business-to-business electronic data interchange (EDI) and
systems integration for the rest of us, i.e. the small to medium size
businesses of the world. Sure the AT&T's and other large corporations
have their proprietary networks and software for doing EDI, but XML
enables the vast, rest of the world to use both a publicly available,
i.e. inexpensive, network and to acquire, if not create its own,
software at a price much lower than anything the established EDI
software vendors are asking. This is clearly revolutionary and
threatening to the "EDI establishment." For evidence, just root
around the web site, for example, of the Data Interchange Standards
Association (DISA), www.disa.org. Check out their membership list and
see what kind of attention they're giving to this newfangled "XML
technology".
There are two companies that I have found that appear to be in the
forefront of the XML-EDI revolution (and perhaps others can find
more): WebMethods (www.webmethods.com) and Datachannel
(www.datachannel.com).
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