To hear IT vendors talk, everything is either a "platform" or a "solution." A few extra-special offerings are even presented as being both a platform and a solution. I flinch at both those words and give great grief to vendors who pitch me using one or both of them. Almost no marketing pitch containing the concept of "solution" is remotely honest. Usually, a product that might credibly be part of the solution to a problem is falsely presented as solving the whole thing. And those are the less-bad usages of the word, in which marketers actually suggest some kind of problem that the so-called solution might solve.
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