Been using UNIX since the late 80s; Linux since the mid-90s; virtualization since the early 2000s and spent the past few years working in the cloud space.
Location
Alexandria, VA, USA
Education
B.S. Psychology from Pennsylvania State University
Where I'd probably invoke vendor names in the context of (semi-) open solution is when more than one vendor has an offering based on that solution. For example, Java:
Oracle Java (or, really, just "Java") refers to the reference, and now wholly commercial, Java implementation
IBM Java is/was a Java implementation specific to IBM and its products (e.g., WebSphere generally worked best with IBM's Java
Microsoft Java Edition was the implementation that Micosoft maintained back in the early 2000s. It had its adherents because, in some cases, it was a better implementation than the one Sun maintained (performed on MS OSes much better than Sun's reference implementation did). Last I'd heard, they moved their efforts under the OpenJava project, though.
OpenJava/OpenJDK seems to be what many Linux distributions are making available in their default software repositories (at least, the ones that are concerned about tainting)
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Where I'd probably invoke vendor names in the context of (semi-) open solution is when more than one vendor has an offering based on that solution. For example, Java: