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Top 10: IT jargon you just love to hate

By Deni Connor , Network World , 05/16/2007
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IT jargon you love to hate: Value add

"Value add means I now have to pay more for product due to a feature I'll probably never use," says Steve Olson, infrastructure manager for the Las Vegas Review-Journal in Nevada. Others on Olson's list are:

"Reduced TCO is supposed to explain why their product costs more. 'New product framework' means I'll have to use all of a vendor's product line in order to make any one product work."

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IT jargon and slide showsBy Anonymous on May 17, 2007, 12:00 pmTHE INTERNET IS NOT A POWERPOINT PRESENTATION! Stop splitting web pages into 'slides'. Re: Top 10: IT jargon you just love to hate.

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Agreed, other anonymous guy.By Anonymous on May 17, 2007, 12:03 pmAgreed, other anonymous guy. Every web site with some list like this does it and it makes me want to stab them in the eyes.

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The other anonymous guy is my hero!By Also Anonymous on May 17, 2007, 12:10 pmYour web design sucks.

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re: anonymousBy Roxtar on May 17, 2007, 12:20 pmSeriously, the fact I had to click through 11 pages for a list that could've been argued down to 2 pages kind of rots. I understand this is a free article, but almost...

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Great job spliting up a topBy Anonymous on May 17, 2007, 12:23 pmGreat job spliting up a top ten list into 10 FING PAGES!!!! I will never know what this article had in it, because I refuse to click ten times when one would...

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Anybody notice that #2 isBy Anonymous on May 17, 2007, 12:41 pmAnybody notice that #2 is two phrases? PS The Internet is not a powerpoint.

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