RE: Definition of ' business transaction'

[Michael Kay <mhkay@iclway.co.uk>]

> The ebXML Glossary
> (http://www.ebxml.org/specs/ebGLOSS_print.pdf)includes
> the following definition:
> "A business transaction is a logical unit of business
> conducted by two or
> more parties that generates a computable success or failure state."

Which raises two questions in my mind:

(a) what is a logical unit of business? (not defined in the glossary)
(b) can anyone identify a logical unit of business which, as a consequence
of this definition, is not a business transaction?

Mike Kay