>Really this should be an indictment of corporate bloat, having hundreds of thousand headcount companies distracted by performance reviews, shareholders, market

>Really this should be an indictment of corporate bloat, having hundreds of thousand headcount companies distracted by performance reviews, shareholders, marketing, rebuilding the same product they launched two years ago under a new name. Yeah. There are some shorter words or acronyms for it though, roughly equivalent to your about 30-word paragraph above: IBM DEC Novell Oracle MS Sun HP ... MBA , all in their worse days or incarnations or ...