Once proprietary software vendors get a foot in the door, they become entrenched.
In the Mesh, former competitors will find surprising advantages in joining together to share what was once proprietary data and in some cases create new products together.
What that means for the publishing giant, the largest purveyor of ed materials, is that it must really allow sharing of what was once proprietary published content.
Mr. Schwartz said Sun had had considerable success with an open-source version of Solaris, its once-proprietary operating system for server computers.
Firms are increasingly turning to businesses like wealth management that carry fewer risks, but lower returns, than once-lucrative proprietary trading desks that are now all but absent at large Wall Street banks.
And once acquired, such proprietary knowledge tends to be hoarded as trade secrets or hedged in by patents and other intellectual-property rights.
In a gesture at once welcoming and proprietary, he stretched his arm across the horizon, toward the cluster of houses in Imlil below, and Mount Toubkal, at 13,665 feet the highest of the Atlas Mountains.
Isolated from clients and it was once thought assets with proprietary value, technologists bounce from firm to firm, from one high-rise building to another.To this footloose community, the case of Sergey Aleynikov, a Goldman Sachs programmer, came as a shock.
Once scratched, the proprietary material slowly flows back into the scratch.
To the average consumer Android should be able to add smartphone functionality to a number of odd devices, including phones that once depended on proprietary, no-name operating systems like the Motorola RAZR.
USL255, Qudexy XR (topiramate) extended-release capsules (Upsher-Smith, Maple Grove, MN, U.S.A ., is a proprietary once-daily XR topiramate formulation that was developed using a coated-bead technology to deliver consistent drug release over a 24 h dosing interval.
