We do not deal with estimated efficiencies or
vaporware.
On the other hand, a wonderful sounding but completely
vaporware offer from the usual suspects.
"Reporters are looking for solid news from companies with real products, proven business strategies, and customer success stories, startups that tout
vaporware and CEOs still in grade school can't expect to get the coverage they once did."
Microsoft's Internet Explorer was
vaporware. A few of your students had access, and the only public lab on campus was probably dominated by other departments.
One purchasing exec sums up the comments of many when he asks that e-businesses "just have the capability to deliver what they promise." A little less
vaporware, a little more reality.
As business editors, we at CE are ever admiring the inventive dialect of Silicon Valley wordsmiths, whose ingenuity and humor introduced mainstream nouns like
vaporware (much-hyped, but never available software) and coasterware (software so useless it remains shrinkwrapped).
Today the industry is awash in product and system claims from a variety of suppliers, some solid, some little more than
vaporware. The industry will only get the full benefit of any technology if the system as a whole moves away from proprietary solutions (particularly on the back end of systems) and toward integrated industry systems.
No drawings!" It was early "
vaporware," the product appearing only in an advertising brochure to see if we could get interest.
"
Vaporware" is a computer product that--unbeknownst to the buyer--has not yet been created or perfected.
The me-too may tempt you with lower prices, but if the company sells out, those deals could become
vaporware.
The committee reviewed both systems that existed in some state of completion and those that existed only as "
vaporware." Systems that were assessed as having the potential to scale up to an institution the size of Penn State were selected for further study.