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Vendor lock-in refers to a situation where the cost of switching to a different vendor (or an in-house solution) is so high that the customer is essentially stuck with the original vendor (Source).
The problem of vendor lock-in increases if:
No, this is not a joke post. Bear with me, and I will explain under what circumstances it makes sense to move your number crunching business logic from within your Oracle, IBM DB2, MSSQL Server, and MySQL stored procedures to a scalable application level.
In my opinion, these are the three major reasons why business logic is best implemented in the application layer. Further reasons can be found in the comprehensive blog, Stored Procedures are EVIL, written by Tony Marston.
