Oasis, a United Nations-backed consortium of technology companies, is working on a set of standards, Several standards efforts, however, are underway to create the blueprint for companies to use XML for e-business. XML is a Web standard that allows businesses to exchange data. The tech industry has rallied around XML (Extensible Markup Language) as a common language that would help link various programming models together, allowing businesses with different computing systems to connect and conduct trades online, regardless of the model they used.
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Most software developers have settled on two competing programming models to write their business software: Microsoft supports a model that steers businesses to use its dominant Windows operating system, while Sun Microsystems, Oracle and others support their own model based on the Java programming language. "To fulfill their promise, all (the software) needs to work well together." "Our customers have technology from all of the different vendors that are participating" in the consortium, said Marie Wieck, vice president of software strategy at IBM. But if the various versions of e-business software don't work together, the growth of e-business will slow considerably, they add. In the next five to 10 years, some 20 percent to 30 percent of the gross national product of the United States could be affected by business-to-business e-commerce, consortium organizers say. The consortium already has a steering committee and will form working groups next month to address specific issues.
The Business Internet Consortium, whose Web site will debut Wednesday, will work with companies such as Capital One and to ensure that their back-end software works with those of the companies' vendors and their customers. Gartner analyst Whit Andrews says the Business Internet Consortium faces potentially lethal challenges at a time when e-business standards consortia are aplenty. IBM, Intel, Microsoft, SAP and more than 20 other leading technology companies are forming a nonprofit think tank to work out ways for rival e-business software to communicate.
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