RE: EDI Translator wanted

So the hype says. The committee is still sitting and the jury is still
out. Unfortunately the EDI world has so much time and money invested in
traditional (X12 style) EDI that your not going to see a massive change
anytime soon. Remember EDI is way of exchanging documents in your
database with your trading partners and as long as those databases
remain the way they are you're going to see a need for some sort of
translator. (We had a debate on database models a while back) When the
software companies like SAP, JDE et al develop their business document
models on the DTD's then we may get around to seeing translator-less
EDI. If you're holding out to see what happens be prepared for a long
wait.   

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Schuetze [SMTP:aschuetze@magsoft.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 19, 1999 3:23 PM
> To:   'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
> Subject:      RE: EDI Translator wanted
> 
> I thought XML and published DTDs were going to remove the need for
> translators.
> 
> Is XML still too far off?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Alan Schuetze
> 
> Magellan Software
> The Leader In Document Mining Technology*
> Tel: 949-455-9551  Fax: 949-455-9664
> www.magsoft.com <http://www.magsoft.com> 
> 
> 
>       -----Original Message-----
>       From:   Art Tostaine, Jr. [SMTP:art@link400.com]
>       Sent:   Monday, April 19, 1999 9:49 AM
>       To:     midrange-l@midrange.com
>       Subject:        EDI Translator wanted
> 
>       Can anyone make a recommendation for a low cost EDI translator?
> 
>       The high prices of AS/400 translator's from Premenos and
> Sterling
> are
>       causing us to look elsewhere.
> 
>       Customer needs to do 856 & 210 transactions right now, possible
> many
> more
>       transactions soon.
> 
>       We would like to have a PC act as an "EDI Server" where we could
> put
> our
>       flat files into a network directory or shared folder, have the
> PC
> wake up,
>       translate it, and stick the translated file back out on the
> network.
> 
>       Then our AS/400 could send the file on its way.
> 
>       Art Tostaine, Jr.
>       CCA, Inc.
>       Parlin, NJ  08859
> 
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