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I've always referred to this as a roach motel model. Most proprietary vendors do various tactics under this to retain customers via lockin, versus actually goo

I've always referred to this as a roach motel model. Most proprietary vendors do various tactics under this to retain customers via lockin, versus actually good products. Software file formats serve the same for proprietary software. "Cloud" vendors provide easy API services that have no analog to on-prem, so that migrations are painful. And the Great Egress is a painful problem with AWS. Roach motel indeed. They check in, and they don't check out.

viraptor 5y ago
> "Cloud" vendors provide easy API services that have no analog to on-prem, so that migrations are painful. This is true. But just as true as "cloud vendors provide easy API services which provide value over on-prem options that companies pay for". Whether you see it as positive or negative depends on how much value you get from the service.