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"the leader in intelligent workload management"

What does that mean?

As a rule, American companies will present themselves as the 'leader in X', whatever the actual state of affairs in 'X'.

Or, if they are an honest company, they will define X to be so narrow as to only include one company.

Wongle Inc., the leading provider of fine Wongle Inc. products!

I wonder who are the non-leading providers of Wongle product? Oh that's right, some pirate/clone knockoffs based in Asia. ;)

Wongle Inc. doesn't make Wongles anymore, they exclusively specialize in Wongle IP brokering. Wongle Inc. products now consist entirely of Wongle related patent licenses ...

ok who are we kidding... are we talking about HP here or IBM? :)

"As a rule, American companies will present themselves as the 'leader in X', whatever the actual state of affairs in 'X'."

"PayPal. The world's most-loved way to pay and get paid."

Spotted as I fought the Catch-22 UX unsuccessfully to update my home address. There may be a universal law of physics for any business speech not subject to fraud claims. I'm sure everything in Japan is ichi-ban, etc.

Apart from not meaning much, it means they find ways to edge themselves into your your businesses, if you pay them some money, build up your reliance on their products, and are then forced to keep using the products or start your process from scratch. They're middlemen.

And that they make the more money than their competitors in doing so.

It means that "Groupware" is no longer a high-value buzzword.

Workload management refers to PlateSpin, Novell's server virtualization product.

Workload management always meant "Job Scheduling" to me - so I'm with you on this. Never knew Novell was in the job scheduling business (nor attachmate)

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