EDI versus. XML--Working in Tandem Rather Than Competing?
P.J. Jakovljevic - March 5, 2004

EDI History

Since electronic data interchange (EDI ) has earned a reputation as a complex, rigid, and expensive means of business document and data exchange among trading partners, one would expect it to be relegated as a relic of a bygone era. In the computer business, where new technologies can come and go almost overnight, EDI should have long become an artifact, let alone a technology with a mid-life crisis considering a number of younger technologies, such as DOS or FORTRAN, have already succumbed to extinction...