Very good point. I wrote a blog post on this topic to try and characterize different types of lock-in. http://www.eightypercent.net/post/types-of-lock-in.html h

Very good point. I wrote a blog post on this topic to try and characterize different types of lock-in. http://www.eightypercent.net/post/types-of-lock-in.html http://www.eightypercent.net/post/types-of-lock-in.html This was as also part of the strategy when we decided to open source kubernetes. Having an open alternative made the commercial offering (Google Container Engine -- GKE) much stronger because of the reduced dev lock-in.