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by cyberax 510 days ago
IBM tried to do that (asset tracking for marine shipping) with some rather neat technology.

It sank like Titanic. Nobody was interested in it, turns out that companies are fine with emailing each other Excel sheets.

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Yeah I think i remember stories about that, that said, a failed attempt doesn't mean future will not be different (nobody seeing programming languages evolution as comparison point). Neither will it means that a decentralized event chain store is the solution.. just saying it kinda felt like an interesting "small logic global network application layer" .. which felt way more efficient than the litany of different b2b apps.