Incompatible vs Versionitis - What's the difference?
incompatible | versionitis |
Of two things: that cannot coexist; not congruous because of differences; irreconcilable; disagreeing.
(chemistry) Incapable of being together without mutual reaction or decomposition, as certain medicines.
(medicine, chemistry, chiefly, in the plural) An incompatible substance; one of a group of things that cannot be placed or used together because of a change of chemical composition or opposing medicinal qualities.
(computing, informal) A situation in which there are many different (and possibly incompatible) versions of the same software, file or document.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeypot_(computing)#Detectionhttp://libreofficeaustralia.org/lt/community/blog/planet/20110406/versionitishttp://www.komando.com/downloads/category.aspx?id=9606&page=2http://fppad.com/2008/02/11/suffering-from-versionitis
* 1992 , InfoWorld (volume 14, number 33, page 92)
* 2004 , Joel Henry, Software project management: a real-world guide to success
* 2011 , Bud E. Smith, Michael McCallister, WordPress in depth (page 455)
As nouns the difference between incompatible and versionitis
is that incompatible is (medicine|chemistry|chiefly|in the plural) an incompatible substance; one of a group of things that cannot be placed or used together because of a change of chemical composition or opposing medicinal qualities while versionitis is (computing|informal) a situation in which there are many different (and possibly incompatible) versions of the same software, file or documenthttp://enwikipediaorg/wiki/honeypot_(computing)#detectionhttp://libreofficeaustraliaorg/lt/community/blog/planet/20110406/versionitishttp://wwwkomandocom/downloads/categoryaspx?id=9606&page=2http://fppadcom/2008/02/11/suffering-from-versionitis.As an adjective incompatible
is of two things: that cannot coexist; not congruous because of differences; irreconcilable; disagreeing.incompatible
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Adjective
(en adjective)Antonyms
* compatibleDerived terms
* incompatibly * incompatibilitySee also
* incombinable * uncombinable * ununifiable * antagonistic * antipodal * contrastiveNoun
(en noun)- the incompatibles of iron
versionitis
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Noun
(-)- This helps companies maintain an honest relationship with the software publisher and protects against versionitis .
- Versionitis exists when the team is using multiple versions of the same software Integration of modules can be a nightmare when a project catches versionitis.
- The Handbook can suffer from versionitis ; at this writing, the Handbook is one release behind the current version of the software, making it out of date in parts.