Open systems provide four advantages:
- Anyone can use them, so that there is a "level playing field" for vendors
which will
encourage them to use them as.
- Systems can integrate with each other regardless or source which allows
institutions to choose the most suitable application and vendors to concentrate on
those parts of the systems that they specialise in without having to try to meet all the
institution's needs.
- The ability to adapt systems to local needs
- Vendors are not obliged to create everything; instead they can develop just those
parts that they have expertise in.
