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Often progress in industrial automation stagnates as users and vendors bicker over the establishment of standards. The VHS/Betamax conflict is often cited as an example of why you don't want to be on the losing side of a standards war. But as this InTech article points out, that may not be a valid analogy. Many industrial companies integrated minicomputers into their control systems at great expense, but gained the expertise and competitive advantage long before PC standards were available. They didn't let the lack of a single standard hold them back. Do we really need just one standard for the whole world?
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