Conclusion

Though this document may appear as an attempt to make specific 3rd party vendors look bad, that is not its intention. In fact, the author acknowledges having been an antagonistic developer in the past. To that point, the author hopes that by providing specific illustrations of where assumptions made by 3rd parties can lead to problems, the reader will be more apt to consider potential conditions that might become problematic if other applications attempt to co-exist with ones that the reader may write in the future.