Weasel words proliferate in the computer industry like the rodents that are their natural prey, and one of the most popular is solution, a word to be treated with contempt when uttered by a vendor – only the customer can say whether what is on offer is really the answer to the problem at hand; needless to say, IBM Corp loves talking about solutions – so much so that it wants it as a verb as well as a noun, as in two citations from the house magazine Think: Transfer work to solution under capacity workload solutions, and The summarisation of the education is then sent to Site Education for solutioning where a remedial English course might be the best solution.
