In days of old, when knights were bold, and interoperability was not invented…no one worried about vendor lock-in because, after all, that was all there was. Software running on your DEC machine was ...

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With the sprawling nature of SOA, and the immaturity of some SOA-related standards, vendors want to reel you into their proprietary world Although most SOA bottlenecks relate to governance, some are ...

One of the primary reasons companies fail to innovate is that they are locked into a specific vendor’s technology. Watch out for these pitfalls. In order to remain competitive, today’s businesses need ...

If you looked at OpenAI prior to Friday afternoon, it had everything an enterprise buyer (and, for that matter, an investor) could possibly want in a startup: an absolutely killer product in ChatGPT, ...

The manufacturing industry is undergoing a renaissance, and shedding its stereotype as a technology laggard as it pursues the promise of new AI technologies and the need to be relevant to a new ...

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As the buzz around network function virtualization (NFV) continues to grow, particularly within the mobile service provider market, carriers are in trials to virtualize key functions within the ...

Major IT government software contractors like Microsoft and Oracle routinely lock federal agencies into sole-source contracts using monopolistic methods that cost the taxpayers hundreds of millions of ...

Avoidance of vendor lock-in continues to drive much of IT spending. However, it’s not necessarily clear that buying from a number of vendors achieves the desired result of lowering costs. Last time, I ...