AI Versus Vendor Lock-in Every CIO Has a “Vendor Story”. Every one can tell you a story about the time a vendor tried – and sometimes succeeded – to hold them hostage. I once witnessed a senior VP of sales from an unnamed large database and enterprise software vendor in an “annual review” meeting with a CIO. The SVP…
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This is a brief aside from my ongoing series about avoiding entity services. An interesting dinner conversation led to thoughts that I needed to write down. Amdahl's Law In 1967, Gene Amdahl presented a case against multiprocessing computers. He argued that the maximum speed increase for a task would be limited…