Frank Swarbrick wrote: | Meaningless nonsense buzzwords.
and it is easy to sympathize with his reaction; but he is wrong, dead wrong. IBM has, for example, made a large substantive and financial commitment to the cloud. Rhetorical conventions differ from one context to another, and in the context of big companys' annual reports, IBM's rhetoric is modest. It would be inappropriate to a learned-journal paper or even a language-reference manual, but an annual report is neither. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
