...government, manufacturing and banking were the industries with the highest growth potential. "We remain optimistic about verticalmarket spending on IT," said Anne Songtao Lu, an analyst at IDC. Discoverer 10g certified for applications suite...
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2005/08/23/211424/news-in-brief.htm
...producing extensions to the schema for specific industries, which will doubtless place it in competition with existing verticalmarket XML languages. Another set of XML-based documents for horizontal business transactions is the boleroXML standard...
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2001/10/23/183070/tagging-along.htm