https://www.libcom.de/en/tags/sovereignty/ Recent content in Sovereignty on libcom.de Hugo en-GB Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.libcom.de/en/blog/vendor-lockin/ Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.libcom.de/en/blog/vendor-lockin/ <p>Vendor lock-in rarely begins with a conscious decision.</p> <p>Usually it begins with a nice offer. Free trial. Easy migration. Everything from one source. And two years later you discover: switching would take months, cost a fortune, and overwhelm the entire team.</p> <p>That is not an accident. That is the product.</p> <h2 id="what-lock-in-actually-means">What lock-in actually means</h2> <p>Technical vendor lock-in means your IT infrastructure is so closely tailored to the tools and services of a single vendor that switching becomes unrealistically expensive or complex.</p>