Why Digital Sovereignty Remains a Fantasy for Most Companies
Source: The Register: Biting the hand that feeds
Despite rhetorical commitment to reducing vendor lock-in, organizations face brutal economic and technical realities that make switching suppliers prohibitively expensive—and one in ten admit they're genuinely trapped with no replacement option available. The problem is structural: digital sovereignty requires competitive markets with genuine alternatives, which don't exist in many infrastructure categories. Enterprise software markets have consolidated around switching costs so high that independence has become a privilege rather than a choice, available mainly to the largest players who can absorb the transition expense.