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The President's Corner
Welcome to the Association For Electronic Business web site. We are a loosely organized
mixture of individuals with varying background and a desire to see computers and technical
data used efficiently. We try to share, among ourselves and others who are interested, our
sources of knowledge about the exchange and use of digital data.
Most of us have experienced some angst due to lack of technical data or the
inconvenience of its format during the support and maintenance of a product. We have a
strong interest in fostering the free flow of digital data throughout the entire life of a
product. This CALS focus brings us into the many technical segments of digital data
interchange such as a persistent document language like SGML and its proper subset HTML
that has seen such expansion on the world wide web; issues of configuration management;
electronic commerce; and uses of the Internet. We are taking this opportunity with the
Internet and this web site to encourage dialogue and participation of people with like
interests.
We know you are all busy with your careers and daily lives. While we would like to
think that our meetings, workshops, and presentations are so interesting and exciting that
we have to always turn people away, we know better. We are looking at this web site as an
adjunct to those meetings. Perhaps, it will become a true electronic meeting area. Please
feel free to browse this site and contribute your thoughts. We hope to expand the
interactive facilities as the year goes by.
March 1998
I must comment on the new name for our organization. With an interest in an identity as a
technical group, we strive to provide meetings, symposia, workshops, and conferences with
a technical emphasis. Such meetings require a large amount of work in preparation. To
remain viable in such a venue, we need broad membership participation. Knowing that the
technical issues of use and interchange of digital information span a cross section of our
economy and civilization, we want to announce with our name that all elements are welcome.
With a broader vision than electronic commerce (EC) or electronic data interchange (EDI),
we chose electronic business. We like to think that for anyone reading this message, the
AFEB is for you.
Hope to hear from you.
Jim Neiers
When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
Last update March 24, 1998
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