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Palo Alto, Calif.-based CommerceNet is a highly respected industry association, but can it raise the dead back to life?
That is the question pundits are asking about the Internet electronic commerce booster's latest undertaking -- management of the Boston-based Open Buying on the Internet Consortium.
Industry analysts for months have expressed grave doubts about OBI's health and future prospects. While the Internet purchasing protocol had hopes of becoming the industry standard when it was introduced in May 1997, few software developers implemented it in the year since.
OBI is based on an EDI purchase...