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"We're not advocating that a company change a working system," says [Intel's Chief E-Strategist Chris] Thomas. "What we are saying is that where you have manual processes that are delaying or incurring errors, the automation makes sense. EDI is too expensive to throw at a lot of these problems. But XML and proprietary standards and schema are not, especially as new products like BizTalk server and the like become available."