Dave Shuck wrote:
This example of being held hostage by vendor lock-in has been a valuable experience to me personally. I have really been giving more thought now that I had previously.
This is one of the main drivers behind open source -- not being locked into a software platform; should something go wrong then you have the ability to do something about it yourself.
Go down a level, and you will see the OpenStack http://openstack.org/ which aims to do the same thing for cloud platforms, making sure you don't get locked into a given vendors setup.
Vendor lockin is a serious problem -- official tag/function reference: http://openbd.org/manual/ mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en
