Title
Architectural battles in the multimedia market
Author
Marc van Wegberg
Date
1/01/2005
(Original Publish Date: 1995)
(Original Publish Date: 1995)
Abstract
Competition in the emerging multimedia market currently focuses on setting standards for storing, retrieving, processing, (de)compressing, and transmitting information. Each multimedia system or architecture combines several standards, some proprietary. This paper uses selected insights from industrial economics to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the architectural companies by means of some hypotheses. These may guide further research.