2. SVG took the world by storm in 2001-2003, why did it seem to disappear?

· In 2003:
o Approximately 75% of PCs in 2003 had ASV pre-installed (due to bundling with Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0)
o Thousands of active developers
o Many major commercial products dependent on ASV
o Major MS/Visio announcement in 2003 about SVG import/export
· What happened?
· Adobe founders retired in 2000 (they were principal sponsors)
· New Adobe management team:
o No money in SVG
o Might compete against PDF
o Defunded all SVG-related work, including ASV