Hello everyone:
I am an engineer from an vendor, Last month Shimadzu and Agilent announced that they will exchange their Hardware control driver which called RC.net driver. It means that OpenLab Ezchrom could control Shimadzu LC/GC hardware, and also Shimadzu LabSolutions could control Agilent hardware too.
Then I have a query for the main vendor, most of the vendors have reach an agreement with their competitors, for example, with a suitable driver, Shimadzu LC/GC hardware could be controlled by Empower, OpenLab Ezchrom, or chameleon now.

Along with IT information technical used to Laboratory, it would be hopeful that user could control different vendors hardware with just one Workstation software, and it would make great advantage to the furture LIMS/ELN project and laboratory WS training.

So how do you think current vendor's different workstation? and who would get the biggest market if there is no hardware limited on software in the future?

Thanks.