On Monday 28 January 2002 10:23 am, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
>  Urrrrp!  No.  It is the smaller corporations
>  who have to be strict because they have a lot
>  fewer resources for negotiating out what is
>  signal and what is noise.  

If you mean smaller corporations bear the burden of acting "correctly", this is often true. 
Practically, this means they often foot a large part of the bill for maintenance.

(Seriously, I myself have had to reverse engineer a number of third-party systems because th
e large vendor didn't act according to specification.... in one case I had to rewrite the la
rge vendors code. Such are the joys of integration.)

>  Do I have to rely on their code as the contract
>  for all the instances?

For many small EDI players, the answer is a groaned "yes....".


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