Proprietary Architectures Versus Open Architectures

by Paul Harmon

Architectures have been hot for some time. In the beginning, companies like IBM had architectures. Their architectures, in the 1980s, described all their products, pictured them in layers, and suggested how they should all fit together. In the 1990s, users began to focus on corporate architectures. Companies began to employ chief architects and create diagrams that suggested how all of the applications, middleware, and operating systems the company supported were organized.

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Proprietary Architectures Versus Open Architectures 12 November 2003