10 A B2B Solution using WebSphere Business Integration and WebSphere Business Connection
Companies were free to bring down their systems and perform maintenance
without coordinating their activities with multiple trading partners.
Third era: Internet
In the 1990s, the Internet became the primary vehicle for conducting
e-commerce. The prevailing view was that the Internet would replace the VAN as
a network intermediary. Leaving the VANs, early Internet adopters hoped that it
would become the universal protocol and would offer unlimited, inexpensive
reach. Unfortunately, these early adopters are facing a familiar situation: again
they have had to learn how to deal with differing format protocols, such as FTP,
HTTP and SMTP.
First users have al ...