> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of John Gilmore > Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2014 2:48 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: The IBM Strategy > > 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.
Frank is right in that the statements could mean anything or in practice nothing. It could of course have a reality behind them as your example showed. What I would like are statements that could be "translated" into concrete things or actions. But this sort of language seems to be default for companies. (Juridical reasons?) Best Regards, Thomas Berg ___________________________________________________________________ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS/RQM/IT Delivery Swedbank AB (Publ) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
