I think IBM invented proprietary back in the 80s, but that's not what customers want. They want to have flexibility in choosing a variety of different technologies that they want to deploy. |
The fact that customers really don't have to be married to a specific vendor is the big difference. |
Their post players were playing at a level above ours. We've been playing without a true post presence, and tonight we finally got exposed. |
This is the first time we're working together ... on interoperability. It really is incumbent upon us in the industry to work together on these interoperability issues. |