Computer types love jargon.  Admit it lawyers love it too.  In all fairness, people use it because it is fast and effective with the right audience.  I use it too. 

There are a couple of fundamental ways communication differs in the legal world and the computer world. First, the technology world has few, if any, governing bodies to define the meaning of words.  Words from computer professionals only have the meaning the speaker in tends. The law has courts, law school, and several hundred years of case law. 

Things change very, very fast in the computer world and the marketers want to keep up.  Two companies might have nearly identical systems but they will talk about them differently for marketing purposes. Not that long ago we had “solutions”, “enterprise solutions”,  and applications to describe a software program.  Now we have “apps”. 

To keep this post short, what do you need to know?  Even if you think you know what a computer person is saying ask lots of questions to define terms and context.  You may be surprised by what you learn.