seeing as how it was insanely profitable for IBM to lock some of its customer's apps on POWER or their older mainframe architectures, it'll probably be the case

seeing as how it was insanely profitable for IBM to lock some of its customer's apps on POWER or their older mainframe architectures, it'll probably be the case that lock-in is popular and inevitable until some open standard comes along which the consensus of developers decide is better and they force a migration to it via the market