Joe: I don't disagree with that. But I assume (and I'm the teachable sort) that there is a whole lotta duplication out there (facilities, fundraising, staff) -- due to the geographic nature in which most sprang forth -- and reinvention of the wheel (1.8 million boards all solving the same problems and very few posting best practices for others to glean). I interact with a few NPO techie listservs and it is a knee jerk reaction to not even consider whether there is significant redundancy among this many orgs. A good question might be if one's NPO had sufficient funding, what percent would be spent on tech, e-enablement, etc. Funding foundation surveys find NPO staff to be among the most tech averse, budget-wise and in personal inclination. Now some of that is on the foundations -- which continue to provide only "start up demo grants" and the NPOs fear they will have to sustain some tech or practice they perceive they will not be able to afford after the grant stops. Ed Dodds ---- Original message ---- >Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 13:36:16 -0400 >From: "Chiusano Joseph" <chiusano_joseph@bah.com> >Subject: Re: Standards, then mergers >To: dodds@e-dodds.com >Cc: mattm@adobe.com, ebxml-dev@lists.ebxml.org > >Ed Dodds wrote: >> >> Matthew: >> >> First come standards -- then come mergers. I think there are a lot of good ol' >> boys and gals who don't want to have to compete for their jobs during the great >> shake out. Just look at the aversion the US's NPO sector (1.8 million orgs >> strong) has to developing/adopting any kind of meaningful colloboration >> enabling standards... > >Respectfully, I believe that this is due most to lack of funding for >such efforts. > >Joe > >> Ed Dodds >> ---- Original message ---- >> >Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 12:09:33 -0400 >> >From: Matthew MacKenzie <mattm@adobe.com> >> >Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [xml-dev] Edi complexity, does ebxml really reduce >> it?] >> >To: Chiusano Joseph <chiusano_joseph@bah.com> >> >Cc: "ebxml-dev@lists.ebxml.org" <ebxml-dev@lists.ebxml.org> >> > >> >Joe, >> > >> >Standardized infrastructure that draws on the experience and knowledge >> >of hundred of professional computer science and business operations >> >people is ebXML. >> > >> >Locally defined infrastructure defined by a small team of individuals >> >with the only common point of the architecture being a file format is >> >"EDI". >> > >> >Its an aging argument that "we can do it with EDI", or "why not just >> >design our own". An evolution has to take place in the way we do >> >business, and the only way to clear the path for true business >> >innovation is to agree on a lingua franca for how we integrate our >> >businesses. >> > >> >Regards, >> > >> >Matthew MacKenzie >> >Sr. Architect >> >Adobe Systems >> >> The ebxml-dev list is sponsored by OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> The >> list archives are at http://lists.ebxml.org/archives/ebxml-dev/ >> To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription manager: >> <http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/> > >-- >Kind Regards, >Joseph Chiusano >Associate >Booz | Allen | Hamilton The ebxml-dev list is sponsored by OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> The list archives are at http://lists.ebxml.org/archives/ebxml-dev/ To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription manager: <http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/>
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