Re: What do people really expect from ebXML?

[Mike Rawlins <mike@rawlinsecconsulting.com>]

This discussion seems to have gone from "What do people expect" - which is about
marketing, to "what do people want?" - which is about requirements.  The
authoritative answer to the latter is the ebXML Requirements Spec.

Regarding the list of topics which Bob Haugen sent out in a recent message:

* deliver full UML models from business process to basic
components;
* be compatible with X12 and EDIFACT;
* deliver something simple right now that small businesses
who cannot even afford PC's (now $600) can use.

This comes closer to a requirements list than a marketing list, but still isn't
completely correct for CCs or the rest of ebXML, either...

I think what William is asking for is what some refer to as "the value
proposition".   Perhaps this discussion might yield what he is suggesting if the
focus is put there.

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Michael C. Rawlins, Rawlins EC Consulting
www.rawlinsecconsulting.com