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We, as an industry, feel the need to invent catchy names to existing things so that we can sell/market our products. Big Data, Cloud, SOA, (and the worst of all
by yawz 13y ago
We, as an industry, feel the need to invent catchy names to existing things so that we can sell/market our products. Big Data, Cloud, SOA, (and the worst of all) Web 2.0, etc.
Then, we get to debate forever trying to fit definitions to those names... sigh
There's a saying where I come from:
"The village fool threw a stone in a well, forty wise men couldn't pull it out."
- sabbatic13 13y agoThat's what I was thinking. As I read, I kept thinking "but you're just making up terms and definitions and pretending that there's some objective standard." Even for fairly standard tech terminology, usage drifts all over the place.