Geoff Arnold

Humpty-Dumpty on IT

Herewith a collection of the most ill-defined terms in the computer business today. I've chosen them because in the last few months I've encountered at least two WILDLY incompatible uses of each one of them - often many more!

• policy
• virtualization
• agent
• edge
• web service
• solution
• service
• architecture
• SOA

Anyone like to suggest a few more? I'll roll them into the top-level blog item as updates. By the way, I'm not suggesting that we stop using these terms, but I would like to see more judicious qualification and less universalization...