To: stockman_scott who wrote (12892 ) 7/20/2002 6:51:54 PM From: Lizzie Tudor Read Replies (3) | Respond to yes I know the issue well. My last startup company kindof choked on the problem. You can think of appl software people as being in 2 camps- one is the traditional model that emerged from Client/server- this is when the big apps were born siebel, peoplesoft etc. Later came middleware and a set of middleware-like apps such as ariba. The middleware apps play in the "collaboration space"- they function as a collaborator sitting outside multiple enterprise apps. Marketplaces are like that, they (theoretically) don't store data themselves instead they catch transactions and push them through to multiple external enterprises.
