Steve,

The complexity of EDI and the different versions of

the standard has always made it costly to implement

with smaller companies from what little I know about

it.

Jim Eddins

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> If you want to build a spec that's universal, make the spec easy and

> inexpensive, preferably free, to obtain!

>

> EDI has been and continues to be a club that's very difficult to join.

> It is for this reason, among others, that it will die and why XML will

> completely overtake it (IMO). If you want your spec to be a success,

> give it to the developers -- Don't make the developer's life harder

> than it needs to be.