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Subject: Fwd: Re: Information Week article
> Dated 29 July > > http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=26100768 > > <snip> The auto industry's Inventory Visibility and Interoperability project is based on ebXML standards, but the car makers say suppliers already supporting UDDI, WSDL, and Soap would rather see ebXML's benefits brought to those platforms than have to support another standard. "The problem we hear from industry suppliers and customers is they have to support two techniques," says Mike Richards, manager of enterprise architecture at Ford. A consistent approach will drive cost out of the supply chain with simplified business processes, says John Jackson, GM's director of software technology. </snip> The perculiar aspect of this is that this situation was created by people building their own 'standard' - instead of building to the open public one - and now this is ebXML's problem! At least Gartner is now saying <snip> EbXML is more advanced than these Web-services protocols, according to research firm Gartner, providing for reliable business collaboration and interenterprise process automation. </snip> The answer is massively simple - IBM and Microsoft need to add ebMS V2.0 support to MQseries and Biztalk, period. And that at the heart here - with BPSS V2 you can design dual-function systems - but will they implement it? Who is leading who here? Seems like certain vendors are trying to hold an entire industry hostage. Mentioning costs - which is cheaper - an open standard that allows many more providers to offer solutions - or proprietary approaches that only work with vendor provided libraries and 'tooling' (I really loathe that term - who invented it anyway - to me its a classic euphermism for ugly bad engineering that needs crutches to be at all useable / hide and lock people into a single source)? The upcoming changes to OASIS IPR at least means that everyone has to now surrender all IP rights - no more annoying licensing agreements for UDDI or BPEL. Anyway - I look forward to sharing with the automotive industry the new BPSS V2 models that show how they can implement open solutions that give them the capability to design robust and reliable processes. Meanwhile - the saga continues! ; -) Cheers, DW http://drrw.net
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