vendor lock-in

In the meantime , you are just cutting your own throat by trying to prevent vendor lock in until more standards appear .

Relationships among the standards are murky. Developers should also consider the vendor lock- in issue when choosing proprietary solution .

Furthermore, as part of this increased control, the risks associated with vendor lock-in are diminished.

The days when vendors could get by on vendor lock-in, lack of interoperability, and other protectionist tactics are drawing to a close.

It's no surprise that companies are running to Linux to save money, reduce licensing overhead, and remove vendor lock-in.

Leverages open standards to surface integration assets as services, fostering reuse of existing assets and helping avoid vendor lock-in.

To rid the PaaS marketplace of vendor lock-in opportunities, service providers who support the same underlying API are needed.

Lack of portlet portability and the associated vendor lock-in deterred businesses from buying portal servers.

It is standards-based, which helps facilitate integrating products from different vendors and avoid an SOA requiring vendor lock-in.

Another issue to watch out for is vendor lock-in.

Open source technology provides an obvious solution to the vendor lock-in dilemma.

Customer can use OSS software over MS technology and get a single vendor lock-in.

Vendor lock-in from document formats becomes a far smaller problem.

Vendor lock-in: Making a system excessively dependent on an externally supplied component