{"id":452,"date":"2007-06-19T16:58:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T16:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/?p=452"},"modified":"2024-03-04T19:33:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T19:33:12","slug":"452","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/2007\/06\/19\/452\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Recognizing Vendor Lock in and how to avoid it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestandard.com\/article\/0,1902,2173,00.html\">Whether you supply in<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestandard.com\/article\/0,1902,2173,00.html\">formation technology, or merely use it, you will benefit from understanding, classifying and measuring switching costs. The &#8220;friction-free&#8221; economy is a fiction; look for more lock-in, not less, as the information age progresses. <\/a>Hal Varian 1998<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">It looks like NetApp is taking lessons from Hal Varian&#8217;s playbook- <\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestreet.com\/_googlen\/newsanalysis\/techstockupdate\/10362990.html\">During the last earnings conference call, Network Appliance&#8217;s Chief Executive Dan Warmenhoven said the company is seeing software subscriptions grow and become a larger portion of total revenue. Software subscriptions can &#8220;embed the company with customers for years&#8221; and provide recurring revenue to boost cash flow, he said.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/www.ischool.berkeley.edu\/%7Ehal\/Courses\/StratTech07\/Lectures\/Lock-in\/lockin1.ppt%20-\">Click here for a great powerpoint by Hal Varian on Lock in<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/11084229-804994169784666009?l=zerowait.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recognizing Vendor Lock in and how to avoid it. Whether you supply information technology, or merely use it, you will benefit from understanding, classifying and measuring switching costs. The &#8220;friction-free&#8221; economy is a fiction; look for more lock-in, not less, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/2007\/06\/19\/452\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2776,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/2776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}