Using Open Standards

Yumetech has chosen to adopt open standards as the basis for its content and applications development. You can optimize your options by adopting open standards, reduce your risk and costs, find durable solutions, gain flexibility and benefit from quality.

Vendors come and vendors go. The history of real-time 3D graphics formats is littered with casualties of technological trends and changes in market forces. However, open standards have proven to be durable. With accessibility to open standards high, clients benefit from higher quality, more stable products and lower pricing. Moreover with open standards helping to speed time-to-market and increasing the potential for market adoption and acceptance, such products and services benefit from a higher Return on Investment (ROI) and from lower barriers to market entry created through decreased customer risk.

In contract, industry de facto standards often require users to adopt proprietary technology and may require the payment of licensing to a sole or few providers of that technology. Some will use these types of formats because they are popular, thereby increasing the user's ability to interoperate and collaborate others. However, selecting a proprietary solution dramatically increases the risk that your application will be come obsolete. So many questions are raised with these proprietary standards:

Will that vendor be around for the long term?
Will it continue to support the technology you implemented?
Will they continue to improve their product?
Will those improvements force to you upgrade your content at additional cost?
Will these improvements correspond with your needs?
What are the interoperability issues with this technology? Is it truly cross-platform?
Open standards have a proven record for higher durability over time than proprietary solutions. Whereas vendors of proprietary solutions have an incentive to alter and phase out support for older technologies to solicit investment in upgrades, open standards have consistently resisted this pressure. Open standards reflect the demands of their users and are not subject to a single vendor's interests.

Another important aspect of open standards is the fact that they are subject to the highest degree of peer review. These specifications are are available to everyone to view and scrutinize, and often invite open participation in the standard setting process. This fact promotes early peer review. Widespread and early peer review increases early identification and resolution of potential problems, thereby providing a more stable and well-defined standard than found with proprietary solutions.