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To: Greg Hull who wrote (26788)	6/25/2000 11:44:00 PM
From: tekboy	Respond to of 54805

couldn't find an exact reference to what Greg was saying, but here's the way Sun uses the "tires" analogy in general... sun.com "Because open standards are widely published and controlled by neutral public organizations and consortia, there are no proprietary "gotcha" hooks that will make your applications incompatible with an existing environment. ISVs can compete on a level playing field. Developers can focus their creative efforts on the proprietary implementation of open standards, rather than proprietary standards. For example, the Solaris? 7 Operating Environment software is a proprietary implementation of the open standard for the System V Release 4 UNIX (SVR4) operating system. An example of why proprietary implementations are preferable over proprietary standards/protocols may be found in cars. You may buy a Lexus, BMW or Mercedes Benz; but they all run on steel-belted tires and unleaded gas. The tires and the gas are car's open protocols/interfaces. "Under the hood", manufacturers make engine improvements to differentiate their product offerings. The engine improvements are proprietary implementations. An application with better performance, robustness, reliability, scalability and more intuitive interface will succeed. For example, businesses can select the best-of-breed implementation of an e-mail or e-commerce system that is built on such open standards as TCP/IP, POP3, IMAP4, LDAP, FTP, and SMTP." tekboy/Ares@allgreektome.com