Salesblurbs (was Re: [Sigia-l] Semantic Technologies - Jan. 25th Taxonomy Community Call

[andrew at friendlymanual.com]

Quoting andrew at friendlymanual.com:

> Anecdotally, this kind of language was so common during the dot-bomb dark
> ages
> that it was the rule rather than the exception amongst technical salespeople
> addressing project management in Australian government. I got a lot of work
> sitting in on presentations then "de-bulling" it for my clients after the
> salesfolk went away.

I forgot to give the classic example: "There is seemless integration between all
applications within our <insert TLA> Suite" means "We bought three small
companies last week so by next week our engineering services guys might have
them to the stage where they can co-exist on the same server without totally
killing it. Please don't ask us for an evaluation version - we know for a fact
that it will probably not work on your server SOE. They will not operate under
a common control interface for another two versions. Your end users had better
start learning <insert name of scripting language> right now".

And I'm working as part of an IA team on an ECM project right now and hear it
every now and then still.

Cheers, Andrew

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