[1586] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
EINet - "The Business Internet" ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Gadbois)
Fri Nov 22 15:55:44 1991
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1991 14:16-0600
From: David Gadbois <gadbois@MCC.COM>
To: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9111221935.AA12781@fernwood.mpk.ca.us>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1991 12:35 CST
From: the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow <geoff@fernwood.mpk.ca.us>
"MCC PLOTS BUSINESS INTERNET" and "GROUPS MULL PLAN FOR U.S.
BUSINESS NET" were both front page headlines in the November 18th,
1991 issues of CommunicationsWeek and Network World this past week.
It would seem from reading both articles that MCC, based in Austin,
TX along with Enterprise Integration Technologies Corp of Palo Alto,
CA, is planning to design and offer a network service called EINet -
Enterprise Integration Information Network to support a range of of
commercial services to help companies interact electronically.
[...]
What I cannot understand from reading both these articles is:
Why is this network needed, in light of the extant cadre of
commercial Internet service providers Alternet, ANS, CerfNet and PSI
(aka "the Usual Suspects") who are already providing excellent
support for business-to-business internetworking services?
I am not directly involved with the projects working on the "Enterprise
Integration" thing, but it is clear from the press releases that they
are interested in services and applications rather than how the bits get
from point A to point B and who gets the money for making them do so.
[...]
--David Gadbois
