This is Glenn's reply to the commerce one PR below and I agree with him 100%.
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Dear Allen,
We are aware of this new site. If you go to it you will see that there is nothing there but a concept with no substance. For example, their D&B info is just a link , they have 9 company catalogs and so on. Is there potential...yes, but we are much farther ahead in development and exposure. Plus we offer many more on line services. Remember that the B2B market is projected to be $1.3 Trillion by 2003 and that means that more companies are going to be coming into the market. WE have a lead and we are planning on keeping it.
Thanks for your support.
Glenn Zagoren
Chairman
ProNetLink.com
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The PR
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Commerce One Announces Common Business Library -- CBL 2.0; Industry's First Comprehensive XML Document Library
WALNUT CREEK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 27, 1999--
Standard XML Approach Endorsed by Microsoft, CommerceNet, UN/CEFACT and OASIS
In a move to accelerate adoption of business-to-business electronic commerce, Commerce One, Inc. (Nasdaq:CMRC) today announced the Commerce One Common Business Library (CBL) 2.0, the first open XML specification for the cross-industry exchange of business documents such as purchase orders, invoices, product descriptions, and shipping schedules.
Commerce One CBL 2.0 is a set of XML building blocks and a document framework that allows the creation of robust, reusable XML documents for electronic commerce. Using the CBL 2.0 document framework, businesses everywhere can conduct electronic commerce by seamlessly exchanging business documents of different types, resulting in frictionless commerce across multiple trading communities. To enable companies to preserve their investment in existing standards such as traditional Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), CBL 2.0 provides a transition path to XML-based commerce capability.
Based on a broad range of Internet and commerce-related industry standards and specifications, CBL 2.0 is endorsed by industry leaders including Microsoft's BizTalk initiative, OASIS, the UN/CEFACT Techniques and Methodologies Working Group, and CommerceNet and its eCo Framework Project and Working Group. To encourage its industry-wide adoption and development, CBL 2.0 is free of charge and available immediately from e-commerce document repositories including XML.org, BizTalk.org, CommerceNet and Commerce One MarketSite.net.
"XML is the language of e-commerce. It will be a revolutionary vehicle for facilitating interoperability between businesses on a global basis, which is critical to successfully unleashing the potential of online trading," said Dr. Marty Tenenbaum, chief scientist and member of the board of directors of Commerce One. "Commerce One CBL 2.0 provides an initial set of XML building blocks and a document framework developed through extensive research and collaboration with numerous XML standards and industry initiatives. Our goal is to enable open, interoperable XML-based document exchange. The strong industry support of CBL 2.0 underscores the importance of a single standardized framework."
"Commerce One's CBL 2.0 demonstrates that the UN/EDIFACT standards, the most widely-used specifications for electronic commerce in the world, can be usefully expressed in XML to help ensure interoperability among XML implementations," said Klaus-Dieter Naujok, chairman of the UN/CEFACT Techniques and Methodologies Working Group. "CBL shows that EDI and XML can co-exist and complement each other, unlike too many of the so-called 'commerce XML standards' that make no attempt to preserve two decades of EDI standards and implementation experience."
A New Vehicle for Business-to-Business Commerce
Commerce One CBL 2.0 enables any business, large or small, to conduct document-based transactions using the Web. In the past, electronic document exchange has been limited to the companies that could afford expensive EDI infrastructure and subscriptions to value-added networks. CBL 2.0 provides a transition path for companies that want to move from EDI systems to open Internet-based commerce systems. In addition, CBL 2.0 is especially valuable for smaller companies that want to transition from simple Web forms to more sophisticated XML e-commerce applications.
"Microsoft commends Commerce One on its release of CBL 2.0 as a leading industry example of XML elements and framework which demonstrate how XML documents should be structured for business-to-business e-commerce. As a Commerce One Strategic Platform Partner, Microsoft is working with Commerce One to integrate CBL with the BizTalk Framework to facilitate and accelerate the adoption of XML," said James Utzschneider, Director of Business Frameworks at Microsoft. "By making CBL 2.0 available in the BizTalk.org repository, which is free and open to anyone, Commerce One is providing this rich set of building blocks that make it easier to exchange XML e-commerce documents with a broad range of business trading partners."
CBL 2.0 is the first XML specification for electronic commerce designed to take advantage of the expressive power of XML schemas. As a demonstration of its commitment to interoperability, Commerce One is releasing CBL in three different schema languages, Microsoft's XML Data Reduced (XDR), the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C), XML Schema Definition Language (XSDL), and Commerce One's Schema for Object-oriented XML (SOX).
Broad Support, Based on Industry Standards
Commerce One is an active participant in numerous XML standards bodies and industry initiatives including the World Wide Web Consortium, CommerceNet's eCo Working Group, OBI, OTP, RosettaNet, and OASIS. This broad and open perspective has enabled CBL 2.0 to satisfy diverse requirements in a robust and flexible manner. CBL 2.0 is the first effort to address the overlap in the XML specifications for vertical industry initiatives to facilitate interoperability across industries and marketplaces.
CBL 2.0 represents over two years of extensive research and development by Commerce One and Veo Systems, which was acquired by Commerce One in January 1999. In September 1997, an industry joint venture led by Veo was chosen by the U.S. federal government's Advanced Technology Program (ATP) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to conduct research and development on XML foundations for electronic commerce. Dr. Marty Tenenbaum, the founder of Veo Systems and Commerce One's chief scientist, foresaw the need for a Common Business Library to enable companies to connect their business services over the Internet.
"OASIS is pleased to accept Commerce One's submission of CBL 2.0 for the XML.org schema repository," said Bob Sutor, Chief Strategy Officer of OASIS and member of the XML.org Steering Committee. "Commerce One's effort in defining the CBL 2.0 specification and submission to XML.org demonstrates their commitment to help define open XML specifications for business-to-business e-commerce."
Availability
CBL 2.0 is available immediately free of charge in registries run by Commerce One as part of Commerce One MarketSite.net, the company's business-to-business commerce portal, as well as through registries operated by XML.org, Biztalk.org, CommerceNet, and other organizations. Commerce One anticipates that the Internet community will build on this foundation contributing many additional elements and documents to CBL 2.0.
About Commerce One
Commerce One (Nasdaq:CMRC) is a leading provider of electronic commerce solutions that dynamically link buying and supplying organizations into real-time trading communities. The Commerce Chain Solution(tm) by Commerce One, comprising Commerce One BuySite(tm) and Commerce One MarketSite(tm), enables companies to significantly reduce operational costs and increase efficiency by automating the entire indirect goods and services supply chain. As a result, enterprise organizations are able to realize a strategic competitive advantage as well as a rapid return on investment. Commerce One is located in Walnut Creek, Calif., and can be reached by phone at 800/308-3838 or 925/941-6000 or via the Internet at commerceone.com or marketsite.net. CommerceOne, Common Business Library, CBL 2.0 and MarketSite.net are either trademarks or registered trademarks of CommerceOne.
CONTACT: CommerceOne
Kit Robinson 925/941-4591
kit.robinson@commerceone.com
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