Fwd: Re: Information Week article

[David RR Webber <david@drrw.info>]

> Dated 29 July
> 
> http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=26100768
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> 

<snip>
The auto industry's Inventory Visibility and Interoperability project is based
on ebXML standards, but the car makers say suppliers already supporting UDDI,
WSDL, and Soap would rather see ebXML's benefits brought to those platforms
than have to support another standard. "The problem we hear from industry
suppliers and customers is they have to support two techniques," says Mike
Richards, manager of enterprise architecture at Ford. A consistent approach
will drive cost out of the supply chain with simplified business processes,
says John Jackson, GM's director of software technology. 
</snip>

The perculiar aspect of this is that this situation was created by people
building their own 'standard' - instead of building to the open public one -
and now this is ebXML's problem!  At least Gartner is now saying

<snip>
EbXML is more advanced than these Web-services protocols, according to research
firm Gartner, providing for reliable business collaboration and interenterprise
process automation. 
</snip>

The answer is massively simple - IBM and Microsoft need to add ebMS V2.0
support to MQseries and Biztalk, period.  And that at the heart here - with
BPSS V2 you can design dual-function systems - but will they implement it?

Who is leading who here?  Seems like certain vendors are trying to hold
an entire industry hostage.  Mentioning costs - which is cheaper - an open
standard that allows many more providers to offer solutions - or proprietary
approaches that only work with vendor provided libraries and 'tooling' (I
really loathe that term - who invented it anyway - to me its a classic
euphermism for ugly bad engineering that needs crutches to be at all useable /
hide and lock people into a single source)?  

The upcoming changes to OASIS IPR at least means that everyone has to now
surrender all IP rights - no more annoying licensing agreements for UDDI or
BPEL.

Anyway - I look forward to sharing with the automotive industry the new BPSS V2
models that show how they can implement open solutions that give them the
capability to design robust and reliable processes.

Meanwhile - the saga continues! ; -)

Cheers, DW

http://drrw.net