[ Thanks to Michael
S. Mimoso for this link. ]
“When IT pros talk about vendor lock-in, what do they
mean?“Milberg: From Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia, here is a definition of vendor lock-in: ‘… a
situation in which a customer is dependent on a vendor for products
and services and cannot move to another vendor without substantial
costs. It is often used in the computer industry to denote the lack
of compatibility between different systems which, intentionally or
unintentionally, forces a customer to continue to use products and
services from a particular vendor.’“Terpstra: Vendor lock-in means that there
exist particulars of a vendor’s product that dictate how a customer
may use the product and/or that constrain the ability of the
customer to migrate to a platform of choice…”