{"id":3507,"date":"2012-09-07T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2012\/sep\/07\/do-software-vendors-truly-eliminate-vendor-lock-in\/"},"modified":"2012-09-07T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T10:00:00","slug":"do-software-vendors-truly-eliminate-vendor-lock-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/do-software-vendors-truly-eliminate-vendor-lock-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Do software vendors truly eliminate vendor lock-in?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>B<\/strong><strong>y Greg Schulz<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">I&#8217;m always interested when I hear or read a software vendor or their <span style=\"text-decoration: none;\">value added reseller (VAR)<\/span> or business partner claim that their solution eliminates vendor lock-in.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">More often than not, I end up being amazed if not amused over the claims which usually should be rephrased as <strong>&#8216;eliminating hardware vendor lock-in.&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">What is also amazing (or amusing) is that while some vendors make claims of eliminating (hardware) vendor lock-in, there is also some misdirection taking place.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">While some solutions may be architected to cut hardware vendor lock-in, how they are sold or packaged can force certain vendors technology into your solution.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">For example, the EMC Centera software in theory and architecture is hardware vendor independent, however it is sold as a solution (hardware and software), similar to how Dell sells the DX which uses software from Caringo and &#8211; you guessed right &#8211; Dell hardware, among &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Greg Schulz<br \/>\nI&#8217;m always interested when I hear or read a software vendor or their value added reseller (VAR) or business partner claim that their solution eliminates vendor lock-in.<br \/>\nMore often than not, I end up being amazed if not amused over the cl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}