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Strategies & Market Trends : Gorilla and King Portfolio Candidates
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To: nnillionaire who wrote (478)2/26/1999 9:01:00 PM
From: Mike Buckley  Read Replies (1) of 54805
 
Dennis,

I don't have the time to wade through all the messages to find Lindy's (and others') response to your question, so please forgive me if this is a repeat.

Help me understand the term, ..."It controls proprietary open architecture..."

First of all, this is not at all off-topic. It is totally germaine to the issues of gorillas. And it's confusing to those who haven't read the book (and potentially confusing to those who have read it), so it's well worth discussing.

For most who haven't read the book, a proprietary open architecture is indeed an oxymoron, as you suggested. The book offers a different view. The authors' suggest that there are two types of architectures, open and closed. The open architecture is the IBM PC and the closed architecture was the Apple PC (until a couple years ago when Apple tried too late to promote clones.)

Beyond that, both the open and closed architectures can be proprietary. Using the examples above, both are proprietary.

An example of an open architecture that is not propietary is the Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) architecture. It's a standard architecture established by an association and is supported by virtually every sound card in computers, MIDI piano keyboards, music notation software, etc.

Hope this helps.

--Mike Buckley
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