Is Cloud the Next Data Prison?

[mlnews]

It's time to consider if your hosted systems are going to lock you in and keep your data in prison.

[A Former User]

Well locking you in with subscriptions is exactly what Adobe did. So far they are the only one I know of that both uses proprietary formats AND is subscription only. There's goes a step further and makes it so even if the data was local and not stored on their cloud you can't use it without continuing to pay.

[scottalanmiller]

They've always been a pioneer of "data prison".

[QDesk]

Data prisoning is a big deal. You need companies with clear paths to data migration. Something very important to ask when getting into a situation where a vendor holds your critical data.