If you haven’t heard of VRM (Vendor Relationship Management) yet, you will soon. Not that it will be an overnight phenomena – that’s one of the points Joe Andrieu makes in his mini-FAQ about VRM. But read Joe’s post to see why in many ways the emergence of VRM is as inevitable — due to the steady evolution of Internet identity and data sharing technology — as the emergence of CRM systems was in the 90’s — due to the steady evolution of database technology.