Is Cloud the Next Data Prison?
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 It's time to consider if your hosted systems are going to lock you in and keep your data in prison. 
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 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. 
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 They've always been a pioneer of "data prison". 
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 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. 

