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</script></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Competitive Analysis</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ch01s04.html">Prev</a>�</td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter�1.�Introduction</th><td width="20%" align="right">�<a accesskey="n" href="ch01s06.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="section" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2585677"></a>Competitive Analysis</h2></div></div></div><p>There are a lot of competing products.The IMS-LD specification is
very large and has many different options. Each product can implement the
most suitable features. Also, it does not indicate how to implement it.
And therefore, different LMS can implement it in a different way depending
on their services. This is a compatibility problem, but it can be solved
by a convenient mapping between the different IMS-LD references and the
different services of a LMS</p><p>Moreover, when writing the specification we tried to incorporate the
ideas from the competing products (each one of them has its own way of
dealing with the IMS-LD specification), and from the experience we had
when using them. A detailed analysis would be too much for the
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