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Business Issues Can't Be Ignored
- Compelling advantage required -- new capabilities rather than
just improved efficiency
- Engineers are "free" syndrome
- Cultural inertia
- Companies must sometimes be forced by circumstances to adopt
tools; incremental capabilities are not enough
- High tool cost (when $1000 is capital equipment) may be
unacceptable
- Mechanics of component database & supplier information
maintenance
- The embedded system marketplace is not the computer system
marketplace!