Re: Product Help vs. Application Help

Subject: Re: Product Help vs. Application Help
From: "Mark L. Levinson" <nosnivel -at- netvision -dot- net -dot- il>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 19:29:26 +0200


Bonnie writes:
> First, what is the difference between a software "product"
> and a software "application"? They seem like synonyms to me.

Surely not all software products are applications (a language
or a protocol or an operating system could be a product that
is not an application), but I think that all applications are
products in that they are creations that are definable in scope
and transferrable from a creator to a user.

Anyway, if someone asked me in an interview "what is the
difference between creating help for a software product
and creating help for a software application (project)?"
I would suspect that the interviewer was too deeply wrapped
up in one company's specialized vocabulary and had not
breathed fresh air in a while.

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"I've compiled a book from the Internet. It's a book of
quotations attributed to the wrong people." - Jerry Seinfeld
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