Build that into the behavioral lock-in and Guy believes any organization cannot miss success!
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Cloud-based offerings provide some freedom from these platform wars (although, even they present new lock-in scenarios).
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When you solve multiple custom problems with the same platform, the lock-in is stronger still.
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Vendor lock-in is one of the biggest sources of costs in running IT, Whitehurst says.
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But ecosystem lock-in was never the strong force it was cracked up to be.
Twitter and Facebook are two examples of online communities that have achieved critical mass of lock-in users.
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Lock-in to what already existed killed these growth market teams before they had a chance to succeed.
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To avoid vendor lock-in, there should be mechanisms for data exchange that encourage portability across platforms, they add.
They actually diminish the economic damage caused by lock-in of capital gains realizations by unfreezing capital and increasing investment.
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To date, many enterprises have been reluctant to adopt mobile application platforms due to vendor lock-in or missing features.
When companies are successful they tend to lock-in on what made them successful.
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One implication of this strategy is that it makes the lock-in to Salesforce stronger than for a packaged application.
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The lock-in for packaged applications is strong, but it is possible to imagine getting the same work done with competing products.
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In reality, OpenStack is dominated by vendor interests, where they want customers to adopt their own offerings, potentially to include proprietary lock-in.
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Brian Doherty, managing director at NYSE Technologies, said takeup of MOMA was slower than the company expected because users feared vendor lock-in.
Oracle has stated that it will use standards based technology, so customers can transfer their data between systems easily without any lock-in.
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We believe programs like Amazon Prime lock-in customers and make it less likely that they will make a purchase from competing platforms.
Instead of a three-year lock-in they would have to agree only to a three-month notice period followed by three months of inactivity.
The problem is, this has led to even worse lock-in than normal.
Where lock-in is a factor, it is wrong to suppose that consumers and producers will blunder on as if it were not.
Many governments like Linux because it can cut costs and avoid vendor lock-in, and because they see open-source software as more trustworthy.
Network effects are real, and it follows that lock-in is a possibility.
Ecosystems have lock-in for consumers, but they also have lock-ins for manufacturers.
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The industry's image has been dented in recent years, with concerns over lock-in clauses, endowment mortgages and overpriced home insurance tied to mortgages.
Advertising is shiny, so squint through the glare and find out about fees, lock-in periods, points and qualification requirements for what is being featured.
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Some analysts still hope that ecosystem lock-in will let Apple lock in considerable dominance of a market that otherwise wants to explode into diversity.
However, hedge funds have sought to deal with this danger by imposing longer lock-in periods and by securing better margin terms from their banks.
The result can be higher valuations and better lock-in with customers.
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