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Debasement of IT terms

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on Tue, 2006-12-05 09:52. [nid:63]

Artist: The IT Skeptic
Title: Debasement of IT terms
Album: ITIL
Track: 5
Genre: Speech
Year: 2006
Length: 9:07 minutes (8.36 MB)
Format: Mono 22kHz 128Kbps (CBR)

This is a podcast of the original article from the IT Skeptic: "Debasement of concepts by IT vendors and analysts" by the IT Skeptic.

The persistent erosion of meaning in IT terminology is a damaging practice endemic across vendors and analysts. When a concept gains some currency and everyone wants it, suddenly all the vendors have got it - often by re-labelling a feature of their existing product. And the analysts keep confusing the definition so no-one can call the vendors out for this obfuscation.

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