Proprietary Quotes

You're not going to be a big winner in this business with proprietary solutions. It is our desire to be the first to market with those standards-setting systems and to have a very low-cost position in our products so we can compete intensively. - Gary Seamans

You look at Morgan Stanley and its peers, you see a lot of reliance on their proprietary trading desks and a willingness to take on more risk. If the markets are reaching a cyclical peak, which I think they are, profits are at risk when the economy slows down. - David Easthope

You are going to see a flood of deals from insurance companies and banks that started proprietary fund families and have been unable to successfully distribute them through their captive sales organizations. - Burton Greenwald

Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used. - David Lehman

With these results we've proved that the Fabric 7 architecture enables a level of scalability and performance on x86 platforms that easily competes with more expensive, proprietary systems that have traditionally dominated the midrange and high-end of the server market. - Sharad Mehrotra

With its support for Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), in addition to its pioneering support of JSR 170, Day CRX provides a content infrastructure that is 'future-proof' and sustainable, thus reducing the risk of proprietary vendor lock-in for all of Day's customers. - Chris Wood

With Corel WordPerfect Office X3, Corel has created a powerful solution that enables users to create, edit, and re-use their content, particularly through its new ability to import, edit and export PDF, as well as its exceptional Microsoft Office compatibility. Now customers can choose a feature-rich office suite that supports today's most widely-used open and proprietary file formats, backed by Corel's outstanding customer support, for up to 60% less than the cost of Microsoft Office. - Richard Carriere

With ceramic capacitors, a lot of the content really is proprietary intellectual property. But with standard interconnects, it doesn't matter. Everybody knows exactly what's in the component. So in that case, the lack of full disclosure is a cop out. - Michael Kirschner

Windows XP is designed to bring more choice and options to consumers, not fewer, in stark contrast to AOL Time Warner's closed, proprietary strategy. - Vivek Varma