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Strategies & Market Trends : Gorilla and King Portfolio Candidates
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To: nnillionaire who wrote (478)2/25/1999 4:01:00 PM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (1) of 54805
 
But this term simply seems like an oxymoron.

Yeah, it sure does, doesn't it? If its open, how can it be proprietary?

The word open has become a source of confusion in high tech because vendors in the Unix community have tried to make it the opposite of proprietary. When used in this way, open means committee controlled.

In hypergrowth markets, the first goal of market development strategy is to eliminate bottlenecks to growth. The most rapidly proliferating architectures have proved to be proprietary and open. This is cribbed from Moore's book.

This is the advantage that Microsoft has over Unix. Many venders can develop products for the market in parallel.

IBM insisted that Intel license its 8086 chip architecture to second sources, although Intel resisted the idea; in the end this proved a boon to Intel's own growth. The market grew incredibly fast, thereby institutionalizing Intel's architecture as a de facto standard.

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