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From: edwardm@hpcuhc.HP.COM (Edward McClanahan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Registered developer's...Jazz improv software
Message-ID: <680019@hpcuhc.HP.COM>
Date: 8 Dec 89 23:51:28 GMT
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In response to Jack A Zucker's "Where's the beef?", Roger Rock Rosner writes:

>                                                      (Vaporware, by
> any reasonable definition, is when the company says (or implies) the
> product is shipping when it isn't yet done.)

Another form of Vaporware is when a company announces a product simply
to test the waters and see if there is enough interest to actually
produce it.  This is kind of like White House Aids "leaking" information
to manipulate the media.  A recent president will go down in history as
being a master at this "technique" :-) :-) :-).

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