Comments on: You Can’t Stop Lock-In, You Can Only Hope to Contain It http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2008/07/14/cant_stop_lockin/ because technology is just another ecosystem Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:16:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: james governor http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2008/07/14/cant_stop_lockin/#comment-434939 james governor Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:23:13 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/?p=2092#comment-434939 timely piece stephen. i have been thinking about the cloud, and the "need for open source standards" as Simon Wardley puts it. I am not so sure. It seems to me we've never hard a computing wave where customers didn't anoint a *hopefully* benign dictator (they never really are!) to package a set of standards and add extensions to create a computing experience that works for the mainstream. It seems to me deeply ironic that today many of those geeks who proclaim themselves to be holders of the the open flame are jumping straight into Apple's warm, closed, embrace. The Apple experience is amazing, computer, iPod, phone - but its certainly not open. timely piece stephen. i have been thinking about the cloud, and the “need for open source standards” as Simon Wardley puts it. I am not so sure. It seems to me we’ve never hard a computing wave where customers didn’t anoint a *hopefully* benign dictator (they never really are!) to package a set of standards and add extensions to create a computing experience that works for the mainstream. It seems to me deeply ironic that today many of those geeks who proclaim themselves to be holders of the the open flame are jumping straight into Apple’s warm, closed, embrace. The Apple experience is amazing, computer, iPod, phone - but its certainly not open.

]]> By: josephmartins http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2008/07/14/cant_stop_lockin/#comment-434635 josephmartins Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:50:27 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/?p=2092#comment-434635 Solid advice Stephen. I wrote an interesting little piece about lock-in earlier this year...specifcally about how lock-in is used by development teams as a bogeyman to gather support for internal development projects. But lock-in will only worsen with time. Systems tend to become more complex, not less, over time regardless the development platform, architecture or source (bought versus built). Decisions made today can and will have a long-lasting impact. Solid advice Stephen. I wrote an interesting little piece about lock-in earlier this year…specifcally about how lock-in is used by development teams as a bogeyman to gather support for internal development projects.

But lock-in will only worsen with time. Systems tend to become more complex, not less, over time regardless the development platform, architecture or source (bought versus built).

Decisions made today can and will have a long-lasting impact.

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