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Sat Nov 29

• Positive Feedbacks in the Economy

Thu Nov 27

• The Winner-Takes-A ll Economy

Sat Nov 15

• Why OpenOffice.org Failed ? and What to Do About It - Blogs ? ComputerworldU K blogs - The latest technology news & analysis on Outsourcing, HMRC data, Apple iPhone, Global warming, MySQL, Open Enterprise

Thu Nov 13

• Bits or pieces?: How do you want your cloud?: An interesting thought from Simon Wardley about how the Azure thing could play out for those that buy into it. We all know lock-in is one of the attractive things about PaaS to service providers, but has Microsoft built critical mass before they've even begun?

Wed Nov 12

• Github vs Gitorious and centralised development revisited: it?s just both fortunate and unfortunate that Github?s an actively supported but closed-source tool. Pull requests, network relations and comments aren?t going anywhere regardless of how distributed git itself can be, and if your development process relies on using those collaboration tools then you?re quite strictly tied into that particular centralised system.

Tue Nov 11

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Sat Nov 1

• Windows Azure Offers Developers Iron-Clad Lock-in | Slashdot: Come into My Parlour says........

Tue Oct 28

• Breaking down the saga of vendor lock-in (Cloud Computing): A look at some of the trends which are gradually picking up in the Cloud Computing industry.

Wed Oct 22

• Why OpenOffice.org Failed - and What to Do About It (ComputerWorld UK) [LWN.net]

Sun Oct 19

• Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Cloud Computing and Vendor Lock-In: "key wrinkle with cloud computing platforms is that there is no standardizatio n of the APIs & platform technologies that underlie these services. The APIs provided by Amazon's cloud computing platform (EC2/S3/EBS/et c) are radically different from those provided by Google App Engine (Datastore API/Python runtime/Images API/etc). For zero lock-in to occur in this space, there need to be multiple providers of the same underlying APIs. Otherwise, migrating between cloud computing platforms will be more like switching your application from Ruby on Rails and MySQL to Django and PostgreSQL (i.e. a complete rewrite). ... Google & Amazon are not explicitly trying to lock-in customers ... [but] if a customer has heavily invested in either ... there isn't a straightforwar d way ... to extricate themselves ... & switch to another vendor. In addition there is not a competitive marketplace of vendors providing standard/inter operable platforms as there are with email hosting or Web hosting"

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