Today most inter-organization electronic business is conducted using traditional information-oriented mechanisms such as EDI or simple FTP exchanges. These exchanges deal with simple information, and they tend to occur within nightly and weekly batch transfers, meaning that latency is a consideration.... Today most inter-organization electronic business is conducted using traditional information-oriented mechanisms such as EDI or simple FTP exchanges. These exchanges deal with simple information, and they tend to occur within nightly and weekly batch transfers, meaning that latency is a consideration. Software Development