Re: [ebxml-dev] RE: [EDI-L] Article on ebXML Core Components ...

[Todd Boyle <tboyle@rosehill.net>]

Me too.

Mike Rawlins wrote:

>Excuse me, but I can't help but violently disagree with most of this 
>sentiment!
>[...]
>We need better solutions, not bigger sticks...
>
>Christopher Harvey wrote:
>
>>...my 0.02 cents worth is to ask all involved to understand
>>   the needs of the SMEs but to use the big guys to force change.

Here's one idea: a bettor's approach, or a PicoIPO:


Dear SME Accounting Software vendor:

I hereby offer to pay you to build a UBL interface on your
product.  You will offer it for sale to your users.

Together we will calculate how many unit sales it requires
for you to recover the cost of the development.  You will
repay me for my investment at a flat rate until you reach the
breakeven sales.  Then you will pay me another $1000
winnings, from any further incremental sales.  Then you
can keep the sales proceeds after that.

Stop arguing which came first, the chicken or the egg.

Here is an egg.

Todd