The lock in continues to develop, so it seems.
Microsoft's chums Dell, HPE and Lenovo give Azure Stack a shout-out
Cloud isn’t what it used to be. Amazon’s AWS began life like open source, with the same net result: a developer secret that became an infrastructure fact. Well, the days of furtive downloads are dead and the suits are coming. Microsoft demonstrated that last month, letting people down by saying Azure Stack won’t be something …
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Saturday 1st October 2016 08:35 GMT Anonymous Coward
Only with consent...
There's no need for anybody to fall for these scams.
Any board ought to insist on the application of due diligence to the value of purchases, and expensive, licensed bundles are evidently very poor value compared to well selected open source ones.
If a company buys these, it's evidence that it is not applying due diligence, it does not have a proper appreciation of risk, and ought to be worth a visit, at least, from those responsible for enforcing the corruption act.