Comment Vendor Lock-In Anti-Pattern (Score 1) 61
It is by design you as a company whant you customer locked into you product line.
To this there is two ways to lock them in.
First and common in North America is the impolite and dangerous. This is due to bugs and poor quality of product. Method is you are locked in or else you loose big time and I give no care to your rate of return on the investment.
Second is the Demming, Japanese way which says you work with your vendor to a common goal of toalal profitablity of both. You work an agreement that you both produce quality product and help each other develop them. While this happens each companies bottom line are helped and any saving you make you pass to your customers, and profits are passed to you vendors.
As how I see Open Source, this method garantees that the above, first method can not happen. It can work in the second case, since you both are helping each other.
Any how this is my quick 2 cents.
To this there is two ways to lock them in.
First and common in North America is the impolite and dangerous. This is due to bugs and poor quality of product. Method is you are locked in or else you loose big time and I give no care to your rate of return on the investment.
Second is the Demming, Japanese way which says you work with your vendor to a common goal of toalal profitablity of both. You work an agreement that you both produce quality product and help each other develop them. While this happens each companies bottom line are helped and any saving you make you pass to your customers, and profits are passed to you vendors.
As how I see Open Source, this method garantees that the above, first method can not happen. It can work in the second case, since you both are helping each other.
Any how this is my quick 2 cents.
