Open system (computing)
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Open systems are
The term was popularized in the early 1980s, mainly to describe systems based on
The definition of "open system" can be said to have become more formalized in the 1990s with the emergence of independently administered software standards such as The Open Group's Single UNIX Specification.
Although computer users today are used to a high degree of both hardware and software interoperability, in the 20th century the open systems concept could be promoted by Unix vendors as a significant differentiator. IBM and other companies resisted the trend for decades, exemplified by a now-famous warning in 1991 by an IBM account executive that one should be "careful about getting locked into open systems".[1]
However, in the first part of the 21st century many of these same legacy system vendors, particularly IBM and
See also
References
- ^ Ian Dickinson (1991-07-11). "Open Systems Strategy from IBM". Newsgroup: comp.unix.misc. Retrieved 2006-08-13.