In their rush to enter into and then, with luck and hard work, dominate new markets, developers typically try to differentiate themselves from the competition long before they ever get around to considering whether that differentiation might lead to interoperability problems for users down the road. If CAD technology history is to be our guide, then interoperability inevitably becomes an issue. Addressing standards and open exchange is crucial to long-term presence in a market. In some areas, such as 2D and 3D modeling, the willingness on the part of some developers to embrace interoperability problems and to form coalitions for solving them has been slow to occur. Geographic …
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