"In the long run, who knows?" In a sense, Motorola has little to lose because its traditional approach of relying heavily on proprietary chip technology to drive handset sales clearly has not been working.
Vend offers a cloud-based point-of-sale system that is designed to help small and medium sized businesses for track sales and inventory, without investing heavily in proprietary equipment.
Additionally, with the revelations around Goldman's Proprietary Trading games and the role banks had to play in generating the Global Financial Crisis in the first place, regulators have come down heavily on proprietary trading practices.
The name brand computers rely heavily on proprietary software and hardware that makes upgrading or repair VERY difficult.
From satanic mills to sundecks Gold-hunting in a frugal age ReprintsThose forecasting regicide think SDN will revolutionise today's networks, which rely heavily on expensive, proprietary combinations of routers, network switches and software made by Cisco, Juniper Networks and other firms.
"Since our initial involvement the business has invested heavily in its proprietary technology, successfully moved into Buy-To-Let and launched the FinTech sector's first LSE listed retail bond programme.
Playing well with others also fits with Microsoft's new software strategy, which, unusually, depends heavily on open (rather than proprietary) standards and on co-operation with other software makers.
In contrast, MALDI-TOF MS reference spectra, as well as analysis tools, are usually proprietary, only commercially available, and heavily focused on medical applications.
(Although six proprietary law schools that rely heavily on federal student aid could be).
In 2009, when Hillary Clinton became Secretary of State, one of the two deputies she hired was Jack Lew, who had been a budget negotiator for Bill Clinton's Administration, before spending several years at Citigroup, as part of a proprietary-trading unit that bet heavily on the housing market.
