Do stacks solve the lock-in problem?
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| As unpopular as lock-in is with customers, it's just that popular
| with vendors. It assures them cash flow. It pleases Wall Street.
| It gives them "cash cows" whose profits they can use to develop
| something really nifty.
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| An open source stack, like LAMP (Linux, Apache, mySQL, PHP) is supposed to
| solve the lock-in problem. You can control the code used in the entire
| stack.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=862
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