However, because of the second best conditions prevailing in actual economies, and of the risk of lock-in in carbon intensive trajectories, we conclude with the urgent need for some ambitious transport-specific policy design research agenda.
If this is any precedent, it suggests that geoengineering experiments in the atmosphere could go ahead fruitfully, bringing with them new knowledge, new regulatory frameworks and new disagreements and no obvious risk of lock-in.
That course of action runs the risk of locking in losses and then buying when markets are at their peak.
In the longer term, we are at risk of locking in inefficiencies that will prevent the planet from providing for its growing population.
Fortunately, there are steps that organizations can take to lower the risk of lock-in (that provide some added business benefits as well).
In regard to the interpretation of this finding, our study suggests that the vetting process for selecting vendors is a critical aspect for effective cloud migration with minimized risk of lock-in.
Our findings offer cloud computing consumers, service providers, and industry practitioners a better understanding of the risk of lock-in embedded in the complex, technologically interdependent and heterogeneous cloud systems.
Increasingly, providers recognize that while they have complained about vendor lock-in strategy reminiscent of the Wang era, the risk of lock-in increases exponentially if they also adopt consumer/patient-facing tools from their legacy vendors.
For company co-founder and chief executive Kannan Muthukkaruppan, the new database software liberates developers from the risk of lock-in with any provider of cloud compute as the leading providers at Amazon, Microsoft and Google jockey for the pole position among software developers, and reduces programming complexity.
The bottom line for all of these plans: Don't overlook the potential penalty risk of locking away too much of your money.
