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Taxonomy vs Shelfware - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between taxonomy and shelfware

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while shelfware is (software) a piece of software that has never been used at all since its creation.

taxonomy

English

(wikipedia taxonomy)

Noun

(taxonomies)
  • The science or the technique used to make a classification.
  • A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
  • (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

    • Synonyms

    * alpha taxonomy

    Derived terms

    * folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomy

    See also

    * classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontology

    shelfware

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (software) A piece of software that has never been used at all since its creation.
  • A piece of software created for the sole purpose of being immediately shelved.
  • Software purchased but not used.

    • Quotations

    *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."