open system architecture definition

open system architecture

Vendor-independent, non-proprietary, computer system or device design based on official and/or popular standards. It allows all vendors (in competition with one another) to create add-on products that increase a system's (or device's) flexibility, functionality, interoperatability, potential use, and useful life. And enables the users to customize and extend a system's (or device's) capabilities to suit individual requirements. Also called open architecture.

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