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After evaluating a piece of hardware and concluding that support of it by AutoCAD would be beneficial to the Company and its customers , a Developer 's Tool Kit may be sold to the hardware vendor . As a result , hardware vendors suffering from reduced procurements must increase messaging around maintenance and services . Hardware vendors IBM and Dell even have dipped their toes into the Linux laptop pool occasionally and pulled out for reasons of support ( lots ) and demand ( small ) . Autodesk retains title to the driver developed by the hardware vendor and has so constructed the Kit that it discloses no proprietary information . In the days when UNIX servers were clustered together with systems management software provided by the hardware vendor , ISVs and consumers alike were sheltered from the fallout of choice . This has hampered the uptake of OMA DRM by hardware vendors and service providers . " We needed more than a hardware vendor . Now 's the time for these folks to get together with the hardware vendors and start showing that there are legal alternatives for those who seek them . OEMs began preparing products for market some six months ago and several hardware vendors , particularly hard drive makers , have demonstrated working SAS products and are now beginning to announce product availability . Aside from an impressive line up of hardware vendor support , Apple was also showing Final Cut Pro networked with storage area network ( SAN ) capabilities , thanks to their partnership with Transoft , Hewlett Packard 's storage provider subsidiary .