In extracting data from aging financial, order entry, and accounting systems that were never meant to work together and sharing that information with other systems, EAI software, formerly known as just plain middleware, is finding a new home: as the technology that enables transactions among many buyers and sellers online. The software is expected to play a critical, lucrative behind-the-scenes role as business-to-business e-commerce, particularly trading exchanges, explodes.

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