In the early days of any significant move towards new open platforms, a key challenge is to balance the desire for a broad innovation base, with the need to achieve unified and operationally robust platforms in time to meet market deployment needs. Large players will push for breadth and openness of the platform to maximize participation, competition and new ideas; but also for a controlled and unified architecture that can achieve large scale quickly. In some cases the players supporting these objectives may have competing commercial agendas; in others they may be the same companies, seeking to strike the perfect balance between breadth and unity. The IT world went through this process of aligning different objectives, in the long migration…