Article:		Standards Selection is Vendor Selection
Subject:		And Not All Proprietary Apps are Bad
Date:		2004-06-28 13:06:14
From:		Len Bullard
And not all proprietary apps are bad. It is said that ensuring a customer will lose something if they switch from your product is a way to keep them. Then there are the apps that do the job cheaply, are ubiquitous, and close enough to 'standard' that using them has no risk because translation into the 'standard' form is cheap. This balances the risk of things such as needing a plugin for the 'standard' but the local brand is supported in the native application. Open source hasn't changed as many attitudes as some believe. What is changing is the ease of collaboration, but at the end of the day, style and talent and ruthless execution still count.

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