Business-to-business e-commerce with open buying on the Internet

Internet based e-commerce is flourishing, but mostly in the business-to-consumer world. The lack of well-accepted standards is hindering the success in promoting business-to-business e-commerce solutions. Open buying on the Internet standard is one of the promising efforts in bringing business-to-business e-commerce into corporate purchasing. Existing merchant servers can be augmented to endorse such standard like what we did with OBI-enablement for Net.Commerce