Who Makes Up These Silly Terms and Phrases?

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lxskllr

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They probably get paid by the letter. What is "services-driven architecture"? Daemons?

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"Our crusty old systems needed to be updated, so we thought we'd try containers this time. That should work til I find a better job somewhere else"
 
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sdifox

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They probably get paid by the letter. What is "services-driven architecture"? Daemons?

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"Our crusty old systems needed to be updated, so we thought we'd try containers this time. That should work til I find a better job somewhere else"
SAAS (software as a service) is my guess
 
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I guess I should add that the phrase is in a Government document about changes to a website that worked fine, but , well ....
 

nakedfrog

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I guess I should add that the phrase is in a Government document about changes to a website that worked fine, but , well ....
The website probably worked fine, but was on hardware and an operating system that's no longer supported, and also nobody that works there knows anything about it anymore, and the configuration was an unholy abomination, and wouldn't be supported by modern monitoring/backup tools, etc.
 
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nakedfrog

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This seems like a "you" problem, there's nothing really wrong with that sentence. It's not even moderately egregious by corporate speech standards.
 

nakedfrog

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I don't seem to recall this proliferating till the early 90's.
It didn't just explode in the 90s as a fully formed phenomenon, born from nothing.

Someone told us to stop in 1976

In 1976, journalist and writing professor William Zinsser published the first edition of On Writing Well. Since then, it has become a classic, with five expanded editions and even more reprints. Common among all the editions is Zinsser’s rage toward the "growing arsenal of jargon" in the American corporation:

"Beware, then, of the long word that is no better than the short word: 'facilitate' (ease), 'implement' (do), 'sufficient' (enough), 'attempt' (try) ... Beware, too, of all the slippery new fad words for which the language already has equivalents: paradigm and parameter, optimize and maximize, prioritize and potentialize. They are all weeds that will smother what you write. Don't dialogue with someone you can talk to. Don't interface with anybody."