Buzz Issue: Business-to-business bust, 09/11/00

Error 404--Not Found

From RFC 2068 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1:

10.4.5 404 Not Found

The server has not found anything matching the Request-URI. No indication is given of whether the condition is temporary or permanent.

If the server does not wish to make this information available to the client, the status code 403 (Forbidden) can be used instead. The 410 (Gone) status code SHOULD be used if the server knows, through some internally configurable mechanism, that an old resource is permanently unavailable and has no forwarding address.

Error 404--Not Found

From RFC 2068 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1:

10.4.5 404 Not Found

The server has not found anything matching the Request-URI. No indication is given of whether the condition is temporary or permanent.

spin headline

Here’s a look at 10 additional technologies circulating through the industry spin cycle.

By Network World Staff
Network World, 09/11/00

Business-to-business bust

Somebody just filled out an HTML form on your spiffy new Web site and placed an order. Now what?

That's the big question facing firms once they've done the relatively easy work of building Web-based applications. Connecting that order to back-office applications and to suppliers and partners is so tough that it's just not happening today.

Integrating applications - getting them to exchange data - has always been hard. During the past decade, enterprise application integration (EAI) software has made this easier, at least within a company's four walls. Now traditional EAI software is converging with new business-to-business software, which typically focuses on Web-site-to-Web-site interactions based on documents formatted in HTML or XML.

This convergence will show up in several ways. Vendors will be merging, as business-to-business software vendor Webmethods and EAI veteran Active Software recently did. Others will be partnering or developing the respective EAI or business-to-business features needed to round out product lines.

But beware of the hype - there's a long way to go.

- John Cox

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