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State of the GXS Case
As you may know, we heard from the Appellate Court on December 26th that our appeal was denied. Going over the unpublished opinion of the court, it seemed that the problem was not on the points of law that we had brought up, but the difficulty the courts have had to date understanding the nature of the EDI market and the nature of competition within the market. As the problem was primarily a misapprehension of the facts and not on the application of the law, we have chosen to request a rehearing by the same panel rather than petitioning a … Continue reading
Posted in Interconnects, President's Letter
Tagged GXS, Interconnects, Sherman Anti-Trust Act
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Canonical EDI: Standardizing the Standard for the 99%
Mike Dietzen at the Brady Corporation started a discussion on LinkedIn regarding a new way to think about EDI. In the comment thread it moved in to a discussion of Canonical EDI, a concept that is near and dear to my heart. Can we as professionals agree to a new way of doing EDI? I would like to shift the thinking of how EDI maps are designed. If the receiving systems set the mapping specifications, then trading partners can ensure the documents load efficiently. This requires a change from the customer driven mapping specification of today. Though most maps can … Continue reading
Posted in Developers, ECGridOS, EDI
Tagged Canonical EDI, Developers, ECGridOS, EDI, Hubs, Implementation Guides, Spokes
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ECGridOS Going Mainstream
There is always a tipping point where the game changes. ECGridOS is now there. After years of grunt work, visioning, coding, evangelizing, ECGridOS has risen above the noise. Recently, there have been contracting opportunities popping up for ECGridOS Developers and future ECGridOS Developers are seeking us out to see how they can jump on the next IT wave. Here is a link from Elance: https://www.elance.com/j/develop-middleware-solution-push-pull-data-using-web-services/34750174/ We are building an EDI application based on ECGridOS from Loren Data Corp. The initial phase of this project requires the development of a solution that will call API’s provided by the ECGridOS which will push/pull … Continue reading
Competitors or Competition
In the case of Loren Data Corp. v. GXS, Inc. there is less disagreement over facts than there is over context. GXS represents the facts of the case as simply two competitors in the market, battling for market share; while Loren Data represents the facts as a carefully orchestrated plan by GXS to corner a market and unlawfully restrict competition. I will cover the following points, which clearly show illegal behavior in this market: The GXS lead group boycott is not only of Loren Data, but of all EDI Service Providers Interfering with competition within the EDI market directly interferes … Continue reading
Posted in EDI, Interconnects, President's Letter, VANs
Tagged antitrust, Commerce, Competition, EDI, GXS, Interconnects, Sherman Anti-Trust Act
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I Built That!
One of the most common search terms we have hitting our web site is “How do I become a VAN?” Great question. There is no off-the-shelf VAN software. Each and every VAN has built their own system, designed to handle standard (X12, EDIFACT, TRADACOM, etc.) and non-standard EDI data. And for the sake of this argument I will also include EDI Service Providers, who built their own systems and are only not considered VANs because they don’t “Interconnect” directly with VANs (See US Court of Appeals Follow-Up). Each of us has built our own VAN to target a certain market. … Continue reading
Update on Antitrust Suit Against GXS
It has been a year since the initial filing of our appeal. Next Thursday (9/20/2012) oral arguments will be heard in the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, VA. The court is to determine if the lower court made a mistake in applying various legal standards to the evaluation of our case. Appeals are not on the facts of the case, but how the lower court considered the facts (for you financial types who don’t get it, it is a like a derivatives market for lawyers). Lower courts apply the facts to law while appellate courts interpret the laws … Continue reading
ECGridOS v3.0 Beta Released
Lots of updates and changes for the greatly enhanced ECGrid)S v3.0. You can retrieve the WSDL at https://ecgridos.net/v3.0/beta/ecgridos.asmx. Lots of enhancements, optimizations and new functionalities have been added. Especially interesting are: AS2 and Certificate related functions to support our new integrated AS2 hosting system. Persistent storage of data attached to various ECGridOS objects. Pricelists, Contracts and Invoicing functions (still in progress) Please follow release information, reports bugs, and get general updates on ECGridOS v3.0 on our forum: http://forums.ecgrid.com/showthread.php?t=196. And much more to come (Including updated documentation in about a month)! Todd Gould President Loren Data Corp.
AS2: Part 2 – Best Practices
This last year the EDI community has shown a substantial increasing interest in AS2. But what exactly is AS2? This is the second in a multipart series to examine AS2 and what it means going forward to the EDI industry. If you want all the historical and technical information on AS2, then I suggest you Google AS2. This series is about the practical uses and not to bore you with (too many) details. (See also AS2: Part 1 – What Is It?.) The one thing that most amazes me about AS2 is how many different ways it has been implemented. Just … Continue reading
Posted in AS2, EDI, President's Letter
Tagged AS2, Best Practices, ECGridAS2, ECGridOS, EDI, FTP, Integration
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