Vaporware
Vaporware is software that was announced by a developer, but never made it to a real product.
It is constructed of vapor, floating in space, but never materializes; hence the name vaporware. It usually has the best features of all programs currently on the market. In many cases, the vaporware program is actively being developed. The only problem is that you can not buy (or do anything else with) this software.
In some cases, vaporware may be the result of a trial balloon. In other cases, vaporware is announced by companies in order to damage the development of real products by competitors; if the customer believes the hype, they may put off purchasing the real product to wait for its vaporous rival to mature. An widely cite example of this is Microsoft's strategy in Windows 95 against IBM's OS/2.
In many cases vaporware may actually materialize after a long waiting time, often several years. However, it is rare for vaporware to have all of the features promised. Vaporware may be hyped.
Examples of vaporware are Duke Nukem Forever, which as of 2003 was six years past its release date.
Vaporware is also a company selling Amiga Internet applications.
