B2B e-commerce: The Next Open-Source Revolution?

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1 B2B e-commerce: e The Next Open-Source Revolution? Patrick Yee Senior Technology Officer Center for E-Commerce E Infrastructure Development

2 Agenda Successful OSS Initiatives About Us E-CommerceE Our Experiences Conclusion 3/10/2003 CECID, HKU 2

3 Introduction: Successful OSS Initiatives

4 Successful OSS Initiatives Linux A recognized successful operating system Adopted by small, medium and large enterprises Government adoption Security concerns (c.f. Shared Source) Flexible Used in embedded systems, PDAs,, etc. Ported to many hardware architectures 3/10/2003 CECID, HKU 4

5 Successful OSS Initiatives GNU Friend of Linux OS Spread of Free Software,, thanks to GNU GPL Over 2,500 packages Essential tools and foundation of other open source software systems Used not only on Linux 3/10/2003 CECID, HKU 5

6 Successful OSS Initiatives Apache 63% of the web sites on the Internet are using Apache ~ Aug 2003 Netcraft Web Server Survey Often team up with PHP and MySQL (LAMP) Many other application layer packages Jakarta, XML, Web Services, J2EE, etc. Used not only on Linux 3/10/2003 CECID, HKU 6

7 Successful OSS Initiatives How about in the E-Commerce Realm????? Application Services Tools Operating System 3/10/2003 CECID, HKU 7

8 About Us

9 Center for E-Commerce E Infrastructure Development Our Mission We create the infrastructure and environment that allows electronic commerce to pervade large and small businesses through technology innovation, industry collaboration, and knowledge cultivation. Our R&D Focus E-Commerce System Architecture XML Data Engineering 3/10/2003 CECID, HKU 9

10 CECID s s R&D Model R&D Products Pilot Projects Production Deployments / SIs HK Lead Projects / SIs FreebXML.org (open-source) End Users 3/10/2003 CECID, HKU 10

11 Project Phoenix Establishment of an ebxml Software Infrastructure in Hong Kong Funded by the Innovation and Technology Commission (Jan 2002 Mar 2004) Project Coordinator : Dr. Francis Lau Principal Investigator : Dr. David Cheung Project Manager : Mr. Thomas Lee Amount : HK $9.5M from ITF Total Funding : $10.7M 3/10/2003 CECID, HKU 11

12 R&D Products Hermes Message Service Handler (MSH) TranXnet Business Router ebmail Lightweight MSH ebxmlrr ebxml Registry 3/10/2003 CECID, HKU 12

13 Pilots/Projects E-procurement of office supplies E-logistics on dangerous goods manifest submission Pharmaceutical import/export licensing World Weather Information Services HKSARG Interoperability Framework 3/10/2003 CECID, HKU 13

14 FreebXML.org An international initiative to promote ebxml adoption through open-source software and experience sharing Website freebxml.org launched by CECID in Sep 2002 Steering Committee includes reps: Cyclone Commerce (USA) ECOM (Japan) Kasetsart University (Thailand) Korea Institute for Electronic Commerce (Korea) Sterling Commerce (USA) Sun Microsystems (USA) Sybase (USA) XML Global (Canada) University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, China) Soliciting open-source projects, vendor products, deployment cases to be linked to this site 3/10/2003 CECID, HKU 14

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16 E-CommerceE

17 OSS Benefit Interoperability Problems of open standards Ambiguity Interactions between standards Standard not mature when implement Interoperability is more than conformance! Cues to resolve interoperability Open standard specification Function specification Source code!! 3/10/2003 CECID, HKU 17

18 OSS Benefit Fast and large adoptions OSS marketing channels Maintainability Large support team Low cost Users are wonderful things to have, and not just because they demonstrate that you re serving a need, that you ve done something right. Properly cultivated, they can become co- developers. 3/10/2003 CECID, HKU 18

19 OSS Benefit Verification of specification Development and implementation of specification should be in parallel Specification Implementation 3/10/2003 CECID, HKU 19

20 OSS Benefit E-Commerce Security Security is a major concern Use of standards What will be better than you can know what exactly is the algorithm inside the software system? 3/10/2003 CECID, HKU 20

21 OSS Shortcomings Communication Duplicate effort Need for a strong leader Documentation Support QoS 3/10/2003 CECID, HKU 21

22 Our Experiences

23 Our Experiences - ebxmlrr History Initially we are asking questions about ebxml Registry in the mailing lists Farrukh Najmi (project manager) invited us to join the development Released V2.1 in Jul 2002 Published on FreebXML.org in Sep 2002 Worked with Registry TC to complete V2.1-beta beta- 1 in Dec 2002 V2 RI-alpha demonstrated in JavaOne Expo in San Francisco 3/10/2003 CECID, HKU 23

24 Our Experiences - ebxmlrr OSS Impact Our first commitment to OSS development Worked against geographical and time zone limitations We learned how OSS development works We sent 2 developers and got a great software and much valuable experiences Win/Win 3/10/2003 CECID, HKU 24

25 Our Experiences - Hermes History Mar 2002: Started as a development project in CECID Jun 2002: Deployed to our pilot projects and we started to release it to our partners under trial licenses Sep 2002: We published the whole project on FreebXML.org Year 2003: Several active users joined our development team 3/10/2003 CECID, HKU 25

26 Our Experiences - Hermes OSS Impact Input on architecture design Features Use of tools/libraries Conformance Interoperability 3/10/2003 CECID, HKU 26

27 Conclusion We believe in open standards and open source software development We will continue to follow this direction Our vision is to establish a OSS Foundation for E-Commerce E just like Apache Software Foundation Please support FreebXML.org 3/10/2003 CECID, HKU 27

28 Thank You! cecid.hku.hk