Is MDA a german phenomenon?

It appears to me that Model Driven Architecture is a german phenomenon:

Today, I was looking for some links concerning MDA and found a Wikipedia article that is rather short. But then I realized the "other languages" box at the lower left screen and had a look at the german translation of the article, which is much more detailed.

Another interesting observation is that most MDA tools originate from Europe:

• ArcStyler
• OptimalJ
• AndroMDA
• InnoQ
• openArchitectureWare
• BITPlan

So what do you think? Is MDA a german / european phenomenon? If so, why?

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