Sometimes the key to happiness isn’t finding the next upgrade, but appreciating what’s already in front of you. We’re prone to undervaluing what we have and overvaluing what we don’t have yet covet. Sometimes the grass is greener where you water it.
Vendor Lock-in : This is the kind that IT folks generally mean when they mention "lock-in". It describes the difficulty of switching from one vendor to a competitor. For example, if migrating from Siebel CRM to SalesForce CRM or from an IBM DB2 database to an Oracle one will cost you an arm and a leg, you are "locked in". This type of lock-in is