None of the companies produce hardware or software that would live up to the expectation of the majority of consumers. They would be a nightmare in the retail channel due mostly to their inferior level of quality when compared to the top retail products of today.

That said, I'm a long time non-custom installer professional/hobby user of URC and Philips lines. Currently using URC line for personal use.

There are a number of URC authorized dealers, including some reading'posting here on Remote Central, that will provide you with both good prices on hardware and absolutely provide you with the required software (I can recommend at least one personally). URC probably makes the best hardware of all the "pro" remote products covered here. The others have too many additional failing attributes in their design for the most part. Although it seems that RTI is trying to address that recently.