Elin, a landscape architect in , was in a panic. Her company’s main AutoCAD license had just crashed—hours before a municipal planning deadline. Her boss shouted, “Prova ProgeCAD!” (Try ProgeCAD).

The Blueprint in the Snow

The planner was stunned. “That’s the exact location of a real buried ship we found last month.”

But the real story happened the next morning. The city planner, an old-school AutoCAD user, smugly asked, “So you used the cheap software?”

Would you like a version that focuses more on the technical rivalry between ProgeCAD and AutoCAD in Scandinavia?