In some recent readings on other websites - geez, you'd wonder if I actually have a job with all the reading and blogging I do - there have been recent posts, blogs, commends, entries and more, about how it seems like the old adage about the right hand not knowing what the left hand was doing is still alive and well and with us today - no life support needed... Over on the EDI-L board, one of our own forum members, Earl, was discussing - well - venting - about his current client and some issues with testing through one of those 3rd party EDI providers (won't mention any names!)...  But if you read it, you know.  Anyway, part of this goes back to the trading partner of his client - we'll call them ABC COMPANY, INC....  So, in good faith and in following with the concepts of implementation, Earl's been working to complete the testing for his client to trade with ABC Company.  Now it turns out that the division at ABC Company that they've been testing for has been sold off to another company - XYZ, LLC.  And now testing is no longer needed. Forget about the costs that the client has encountered in testing with the EDI provider.  Forget about the costs that have ...