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• brochureware n. Planned but non-existent product like vaporware, but with the added implication that marketing is actively selling and promoting it (they've printed brochures).
  Brochureware is often deployed as a strategic weapo...
• vaporware: /vay'pr-weir/ n. Products announced far in advance of any release (which may or may not actually take place).
  See also {brochureware}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• vaporware /vay'pr-weir/ n. Products announced far in advance of any release (which may or may not actually take place).
  See also brochureware....
• heatseeker: [IBM] n. A customer who can be relied upon to buy, without fail, the latest version of an existing product (not quite the same as a member of the {lunatic fringe}).
  A 1993 example of a heatseeker is someone who, owning a 286 PC and Windows 3....
• marketroid: /mar'k*-troyd/ alt. `marketing slime', `marketeer', `marketing droid', `marketdroid'.
  . A member of a company's marketing department, esp....
• clone: n. 1. An exact duplicate: "Our product is a clone of their product.
  Implies a legal reimplementation from documentation or by reverse-engineering....
• gang bang: n. The use of large numbers of loosely coupled programmers in an attempt to wedge a great many features into a product in a short time.
  Though there have been memorable gang bangs (e....
• PDP-10: [Programmed Data Processor model 10] n. The machine that made timesharing real.
  It looms large in hacker folklore because of its adoption in the mid-1970s by many university computing facilities and research labs, including the MIT AI Lab, Stanford, and CMU....
• The following appeared in a memorandum issued by the strategic planning department at Omni Inc.
  "Mesa Foods, a manufacturer of snack foods that currently markets its products within a relatively small region of the country, has strong growth potential....