Ask any IT leader why their department is still operating database technology from the last millennium, and you’ll most likely hear about how much they wish they could do away with those systems. As a ...

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Avoidance of vendor lock-in continues to drive much of IT spending. However, it’s not necessarily clear that buying from a number of vendors achieves the desired result of lowering costs. Last time, I ...

Since the early days of hardware and software, major vendors such as Oracle, Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, SAP, and others have leveraged vendor lock-in as a strategic approach to gain customer advantage.

Does the word lock-in send shivers up your spine? Does vendor lock-in keep your CIO or CTO up at night? Is lock-in really costing organizations tons of money in 2022? The short answer is, no. Two to ...

It’s no secret that open source software is playing an increasingly prominent role in businesses around the globe, but a recent survey has uncovered a few surprising findings about adopters’ ...

One of the most significant benefits true open source software provides is the ability to avoid vendor lock-in. This allows you to reduce costs, increase your pace of innovation and generally take ...

If you looked at OpenAI prior to Friday afternoon, it had everything an enterprise buyer (and, for that matter, an investor) could possibly want in a startup: an absolutely killer product in ChatGPT, ...

With the sprawling nature of SOA, and the immaturity of some SOA-related standards, vendors want to reel you into their proprietary world Although most SOA bottlenecks relate to governance, some are ...

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In days of old, when knights were bold, and interoperability was not invented…no one worried about vendor lock-in because, after all, that was all there was. Software running on your DEC machine was ...