Potential benefits:
o Open systems enable organizations to buy equipment from many different vendors because they favour interoperability among vendor products.
o Open systems help to reduce costs due to competition and mass production.
o Open systems help enhance compatibility of various components i.e. they help facilitate communication.
o Open systems bring about scalability meaning that organizations can keep on increasing their system‘s size as need arises.
Outline two potential benefits to information technology due to the move towards open systems.
