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The final rule will have to weigh a fine balance between giving people metrics and not disclosing proprietary information.

Mark Borges

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

There is a huge opportunity with Monterey and Merced. The Intel architecture has the potential to displace the proprietary, RISC, and mainframe architectures that have been kings for so long.

Doug Michaels

Our operations in China are indistinguishable from any of the 84 countries where we operate, ... We've never had any problems with the Chinese government restricting what we were doing or any incidents where proprietary information was lost.

Patrick Mcgovern

With a local perspective on the Portland market, we believe we can quickly improve revenues at the hotel following the implementation of our proprietary management and marketing systems.

John Cullen

They had a lot of proprietary enthusiasm. They would e-mail a picture of the drugs and a message to kids in town on their cell phone, and then the kids in Farmington would send the photo and message to all their friends.

Sgt. Daniel Devine

There has been more capital-markets activity than anticipated and the pickup in volatility has helped proprietary trading revenue.

Frank Fernandez

One of the last pillars of proprietary technology is about to fall.

Jim Stallings

They had a lot of proprietary enthusiasm. They would email a picture of the drugs and a message to kids in town on their cell phone and then the kids in Farmington would send the photo and message to all their friends to notify them of the upcoming sale.

Sgt. Daniel Devine

Cardinal is gaining a lot of market share, increasing margins and acquiring proprietary products that they can sell at a higher profit.

Rick Drake

Bob's big challenge is developing the perception within his own system that buying proprietary funds won't hurt you.

Geoff Bobroff

It will force some proprietary systems to be opened up ... You have to be able to download content and play it on any device.

Christian Vanneste

We are in the business of developing and licensing innovation. This new facility helps us move our proprietary technology into our customers' hands faster and with less expense. As we add scientists to our development team, we expect to maintain and improve the capabilities of our Technology Development Center.

Brent M. Cook

With document applications, there are few choices, which could be a problem in the long term because there are no guarantees with proprietary software that older formats will be compatible with those developed in the future.

Michael Goulde

If this trading activity is client-driven, oil-related physical assets are certainly not critical. But if your oil trading activity is proprietary-trading oriented, then of course the conclusion is different.

Frederic Lasserre

Back then, the clerk or the tax assessor-collector may have had so much of their time and effort in those records that they became proprietary and just kept them.

Jim Burke

But looking for the effect of proprietary software on the open source community is like trying to measure the gravitational effect of the earth on the orbit of the Sun.

Michael Tiemann

It's low-cost, it's simple, it's scalable, and a certain element is proprietary because they've thought a lot about it.

Glenn Payne

As networks become more open-ended, IT has to be even more concerned that proprietary information can now be accessed by unknown individuals. IT is taking more of a big brother attitude and this is frustrating users.

Steve Hunt

Oxford's newly designed and proprietary Video On Demand system allows smaller hotel properties to offer first run Hollywood hits with a much lower cost system than previously available in the industry making this underserved market accessible with profitability to our clients, as well as Oxford Media.

Cliff Hall

Three things that we look for in our picks, one: companies that have the ability to generate traffic to the Web site; two: companies that generate a proprietary product; and three: companies that really get into logistics business of supply chain management or procurement.

David Dwyer

The partnership with the Rollins group is an ideal opportunity to place a concerted effort upon expanding the proprietary products of CTT into international markets with a corporation that has worldwide exposure and prestige.

Jerry Swinford

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.

Bob Samson

The open-source collaborative development model, I believe, is built to succeed in the Internet age, and it makes more sense than the proprietary model of some of our competitors.

Michael Dell

I think everybody agrees that we need encryption to protect personal, proprietary and other sensitive information.

Dorothy Denning

I'm pessimistic, ... breakthrough and proprietary titles from a well-known franchise.

Anita Frazier

I was very interested to see if the PDC sessions would have any tangible content about where LINQ draws the line between proprietary language magic and system-supported infrastructure that all languages can leverage.

Danny Thorpe

Open source is the same thing as proprietary code in that it belongs to the author, who can choose how to license it.

Jason Matusow

The key technology behind it is the proprietary phased array receive and transmit antenna that Boeing has been developing for some time.

Scott Carson

Gnash has been developed only using freely available documentation and tools, so it can be a free implementation of a closed proprietary format.

Rob Savoye

Going forward, I think there's little incentive for companies to create new IDEs, and even for many companies with proprietary IDEs to continue developing them in the face of what's becoming increasingly and more widely accepted as a 'universal' IDE for non-Microsoft environments.

Ronald Schmelzer

When integrators bid on a deal, deployment [using an ALF] tool will be easier because you're not tied to any proprietary standard.

Kevin Parker

We are looking at many of these distressed (auto parts companies) that have some kind of proprietary technology and some scale of size.

Wilbur Ross

There may already be existing policies in place that pertain to it, like disclosing proprietary information, which would most likely be covered in other policies in terms of non-disclosure agreements.

Jen Jorgensen

The magnitude of the surprise was bigger than most people were expecting, ... Earnings and revenue were driven by proprietary trading and M&A activity and its role as prime broker and clearinghouse for hedge funds.

Tim Woolston

Somebody counted over 70 [Ajax] toolkits, including proprietary and open source. In open source, we have to pick a small number of those and concentrate our investment there.

Scott Dietzen

The motive behind limiting what browser you develop for is laziness. If you develop Web applications, you must develop to the W3C standards. You do not use Microsoft's proprietary capabilities because you'll get caught in it later.

Richard Stiennon

This significant infusion of equity capital will be utilized to advance our proprietary pipeline of novel therapeutics through clinical trials, including both MD-1100 and our Phase I cholesterol absorption inhibitor MD-0727.

Peter Hecht

This is the first time, to our knowledge, that a proprietary credit card has been accepted on the AOL service.

Dennis Honan

They'll charge full boat whether it's a mutual fund, a stock or any kind of proprietary product.

Scott Fraser

It is a proprietary system, and that gives us pause.

Paul Reddick

We found this was really what they were thinking about. They don't see those [proprietary application server] products as being commodities yet. They're augmenting their investments with open source technology to fill gaps.

Byron Sebastian

Do I buy something new that is proprietary, locked in and expensive? Or do I buy something new that is open, faster and cheaper? That is where we see an opportunity.

Alex Grossman

Right now only one person controls the kernel, but if it becomes more proprietary with third-party applications, the situation changes.

Tony Pinto

The fact that this is a very international effort is manifested in the code -- our tools have stronger international support than you will get ordinarily from proprietary software.

Eric Raymond

What we've backed away from at this point is the use of a proprietary standard and we want standards that are published and free of legal encumbrances, and we don't want two standards.

Eric Kriss

Trusted flash has to be flexible in its architecture. We support any DRM, or combination thereof, whether open or proprietary.

Eli Harari

SIP is going to force these vendors to stop being so proprietary.

Elizabeth Herrell

Microsoft has always felt threatened by the Internet, because it is an open world. It sees it as essential to extend its presence there and move chunks of it into a proprietary world.

Ed Black