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Sep 3, 20082

penny wise, pound foolish…

By Craig Dunham
Categories: Articles, EDI General, EDI News, EDI Software, Other Blogs
Tags: as2 • bisync • communications • cost • EDI • network • VAN

The old saying used as a title for this blog relates back to an earlier and simpler time – before EDI, that’s for sure – and relates to British currency.  They have the Pound and the Penny and even a Half-Penny, too.  But this was all brought about by topic in the Inovis Trusted Link group (over on Yahoo!) that got Me to thinking about AS2 and costs and related things – again.  Not that I think about AS2 a lot, but… But what being "penny wise and pound foolish" means (basically) is that your so concerned with the pennies and how they're being spent, you kind of lose sight of how you're spending your pounds.  Or dollars and cents...  It's all pretty much the same.  But it's all about being so concerned with the small stuff - the petty details - that you lose sight of the BIG picture - the final outcome. Anyway, the original poster over there was wondering on where he could receive some “AS2 training” – and everybody then kind of went off into the “oh, we use ______ for our AS2 connection and love it!” kind of comments – but very few seemed to offer an answer to the poster about his question – AS2 TRAINING. Like there is such a thing! “But, ...

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