Peter Kosenko wrote:
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> When I reread the original snippet, I see that the term is just a substitute for "market." They mean "the server market." They aren't just having a slow time selling processors for desktop computers but also for new network servers (usually a much more expensive
Among those who profess to believe that this usage is remarkable there ought to be someone willing to wade through those 15 long columns of fine print in the OED and thereby establish some basis for their responses to the usage. "Space" overlaps "area" in its various senses, and would anyone get excited about references to the industrial vs. the service areas of the economy? I'm rather surprised that the OED doesn't have 30 instead of 15 columns. Probably the speaker said space instead of market because he/she was comparing areas on the company's internal charts to each other. The market is out there, divisions of the company are in here.
Carrol