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Re:Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on? by the-dude on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @01:27PM (#21326307)
I read about EDI in the early 80s.
Re:Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on? by dhruvkar on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @01:41PM (#21326513)
Right. It's been around for 30+ years and it's meant to solve this exact problem.

However, the cost of training staff and implementation is often out of reach for SMBs, still.

Re:Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on? by exhilaration on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @03:08PM (#21327403)
The largest companies in the world - Amazon, for example - still actively use EDI.