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To: Eric Wells who wrote (77545)	9/17/1999 12:57:00 PM
From: Bill Harmond	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

It's all about market power.

To: Eric Wells who wrote (77545)	9/17/1999 2:57:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

It's synonymous to a group of database vendors agreeing on SQL as a standard language for querying databases. It all about data transfer. Oh Eric! Come on! LOL. SQL was a published standard with some idealistic goals about the model that all the vendors tried to solve. In the end Oracle won out. SQL was not a consortium. Heres a consortium - Intel chips vs. the Motorola/Apple/(somebody else) PowerPC chip consortium. A lot of people thought the PowerPC was a better product but no one was really in charge and that was it. Then Sap and Intel formed a consortium/joint venture called Pandesic to setup standards for ecommerce. Little Ariba came along with more simplistic goals and wiped pandesic off the map. In fact I can't think of a single consortium that has knocked off anybody really.