Last week we published a list of trading partners that might be affected by the discontinuation of GXS’ contract with LorenData / ECGrid. After receiving a few comments from knowledgeable people in the business that the list may be inaccurate, we removed the document. Even so, we believe that there is likely some number of trading partners that will be left in the lurch when the connection they have been using for a decade stops working some time in 2014. Also later last week I had the opportunity to talk with Steve Scala, GXS’ senior vp of strategy and development. Here’s a recap of our conversation and my own observations.