It's becoming increasingly clear that tight integration with Web services will be needed in order to ensure that Linux remains a competitive platform on the desktop relative to proprietary alternatives.

A Krone block is a proprietary European alternative.

One key advantage of open source over the proprietary alternatives is that it simplifies your licence management issues.

As with many Sony products, the camera records on Memory Stick Pro Duo cards - a pricier, proprietary alternative to MiniDV tapes.

It is a proprietary European alternative to 110 block.

Several open-source and proprietary alternatives provide simultaneous access to both Windows and UNIX environments on the same hardware.

Carriers and handset makers seem to recognize that open source software provides them with better value and more flexibility than proprietary alternatives.

- Prior to 9.0, Trident supported a proprietary alternative.

Software exists that replaces the basic transfer protocols with proprietary alternatives.

AbiWord is a free word processor that can be downloaded for free, it is open source and is much smaller in size than a proprietary alternative, Microsoft Word.