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To: MeDroogies who wrote (17838)	1/15/2003 1:06:15 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19079

Even with these improvements, the one "killer app" for media has not been instituted as yet. The one thing, that will lower costs, time frames and improve information is EDI. While it COULD be instituted, it has not yet. Napster was a media killer app but lets not go there ! :-) I agree about edi, in fact it is so obvious that trading partner transaction connectivity is such a huge improvement to business technology, that the entire b2b myth was created based on that image. Unfortunately, b2b never really got over the hurdles of the original EDI promise, which had to do with differing definitions of documents across companies and industries. We have xml now, and that is an improvement in that it is easier to define DTDs etc., and the fact that all business software seems to have xml builtin now is pretty good... this borders on web services which are hot now. For a long time I have thought that the biggest improvement to come along for edi/xml/b2b adoption really is the consolidation of software vendors. If every company uses either sap, oracle or peoplesoft things are a lot easier from a connectivity perspective. Lizzie