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*2006 Chapman, Merrill R., In search of stupidity: over 20 years of high-tech marketing disasters (2nd Edition), Apress, page 277-8 *:Purchasers of these software products soon began to derisively refer to them as shelfware . This unflattering designation arose from the fact that once a company bought one of these mega-sized, multi-module pieces of code and attempted to implement part of it, the expense, difficulty, and cost of doing so often led to the rest of the product being shoved on a shelf and buried. * 1994 Silver, L and Marin, I : "Software Use and Disuse: From Shelfware to Improved Software Utilization" in Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting Proceedings , Special Sessions , pp. 975-975(1) *: All too often, software that has been purchased is not used. A term has emerged to describe this phenomenon, "shelfware."