>Go back and look at Boeing again.. the ERP solution was eventually dropped because it was too costly.

Where do you dream this stuff up ?

From Baan's own web site (similar postings can be found at Boeing):

>> February 1, 2001

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Baan has announced that Boeing Commercial Airplane Group - the world's largest producer of commercial jetliners - has successfully upgraded its Baan Enterprise Resource Planning system across 21 parts plants in the US. The major upgrade project from Baan IV to the latest Baan V release included the migration of about 500 gigabytes of airplane production data. This major implementation is believed to be one of the industry's most comprehensive migration projects in size, scope and complexity and was completed at Boeing Commercial Airplanes parts plants during the last week of December 2000.<<

>EDI is big and bulky.

That's what "specifications" generally are.

>Yes, as a matter of fact, I have. I once worked for a timber company. We had a person on staff who was on the EDI committee for the timber/lumber industry. She had shelves full of books to define each record. Big, Bulky, Bloated.

And what sort of "records" were they ?

>You're oversimplifying it. It does much more than that.

Like what ?

>Huh? FrontPage has nothing to do with data interchange.

Taken out of context.