1. heatseeker jargon> IBM A customer who can be relied upon to buy, without fail, the latest version of an existing product not quite the same as a member of the lunatic fringe. A 1993 example of a heatseeker is someone who, owning a 286 PC and Windows 3. 0, goes out and buys Windows 3. 1 which offers no worthwhile benefits unless you have a 386. If all customers were heatseekers, vast amounts of money could be made by just fixing the bugs in each release n and selling it to them as release n+1. [Jargon File]
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