Sentence examples for around proprietary from inspiring English sources

Consider Seven-Eleven, a convenience-store operator, which this year snatched the title of biggest retailer in Japan from Daiei, a troubled supermarket giant.Seven-Eleven's e-strategy is built mainly around proprietary systems.

"There's no way that you can get a company built around proprietary control to accept the open model unless they start with the customer and realize this is what the customer wants," he explained.

Some have contributed ideas that routed around proprietary roadblocks.

Computer clusters are often built around proprietary technologies and applications needs to be re-architected to meet policies [32].

However the company's most recent business the Real Network, a massive IP broadcasting network available for hire in association with MCI is built around proprietary servers and viewers.

In a Google world, the encyclopedia salesman is a relic, and businesses built around proprietary data have an expiration date.

With the SPH-i325, you'll have to carry around the proprietary USB connector cable, the proprietary hands-free headset, and the proprietary AC adapter.

Lin also noted that Airbnb is "a very rare, global network effects company, and that's something we got our minds around as a proprietary defensible advantage".

The Immulite 2000 XPi was a continuous random-access system designed around a proprietary assay tube that allowed for efficient washing of an integral antibody- or antigen-coated polystyrene beads as solid phase.

Microsoft, on the other hand, flush with cash and hubris, is heading the opposite way trying to wrap the open standards of the Internet around its proprietary standards with the Internet Explorer 4.0 and its much touted "active desktop".

The big three have cushy and lucrative pricing models devised, from the pre-Internet era, around complex proprietary networks, add-on charges for things like printing and connect time and even monthly fees.