RE: [ebxml-dev] BizTalk & ebXML Again

[Dick Brooks <dick@tech-comm.com>]

I concur with Brian. Microsoft does not appear interested in supporting
ebXML.

Microsoft seems to be promoting alternative specifications, which they have
Intellectual Property Rights to. No vendor can claim IPR (and charge
royalties) on ebXML's Message Service because it was developed by the ebXML
community and is free for anyone to implement.

Fortunately, there are numerous software companies that do support ebXML, so
implementers should have no problem finding a solution for Windows and
non-Windows platforms.


Dick Brooks
Systrends, Inc
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-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Repko [mailto:brian_repko@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 3:17 PM
To: mark_ai@yahoo.com; ebxml-dev@lists.ebxml.org
Subject: Re: [ebxml-dev] BizTalk & ebXML Again



A word of warning...Microsoft, via it's GXA initiative
and it's web services toolkit is pushing WS-Attachments
instead of SwA and DIME instead of MIME for binary data
in SOAP messages.  It may not be long before that is
the basis of BizTalk (hard to tell with proprietary
standards).



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