Vendors are fond of painting their customers into an IT corner.
The tack has been used time and again with operating systems, management tools and security products. One of the more recent sectors for this gamesmanship is storage area networking. It's been one of the louder debates raging for the last couple of years among vendors of servers, RAID products and Fibre Channel switches. NAS vs. SANs. May the best price point for gigabyte and terabyte capacity win.