By the time the technology reaches maturity and universal adoption, early adopters have already begun looking for ways to enhance and diversify their use of said technology and extend their competitive advantage. We are seeing this today with cloud, as more and more enterprises that adopted cloud the best part of a decade ago are implementing a more sophisticated multi-cloud strategy.
The reason is simple: vendor lock-in. Enterprises do not want to be at the mercy of any single vendor – an attitude that has been plain for the last 15 or so years, with enterprises increasingly moving from monolithic platforms to open-source alternatives.
