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In general, failure refers to the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective. It may be viewed as the opposite of success.

Commercial failures A commercial failure is a product (business) that does not reach expectations of success, failing to come even close. A major flop goes one step further and is recognized for its complete lack of success.

For flops in computer and Video game, see List of commercial failures in video gaming.
For company failures related to the 1997–2001 Dot-com bubble, see Dot-com company.
See also Vaporware.

Other failures

For military disasters, see the list of military disasters.
For events that were highly anticipated but either did not happen or turned out to be disappointing, see Non-event.

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Miserable failure
Cascading failure
Debugging
Failure analysis
Failure mode
Failure rate
Murphy's law
New product development
Non-event
Power outage

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Product (business)
Product management
Single point of failure
Sod's Law
Structural failure
System accident
Tensile strength
White elephant
Anomaly in software
Fiasco

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Bibliography

Charles Perrow, Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies, New Tork: Basic Books, 1984. Paperback reprint, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-691-00412-9
Scott Sandage Born Losers: A History of Failure in America. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-674-01510-X, ISBN 0-674-02107-X.
Gay, Jared I. Enough Idle Chit-chat, Let's RPG!: An in-depth analysis of Toad's failures Some Place, Australia. ISBN 0-867-53090-X

Notes and references External links

Failure magazine
Designing Building Failures
Site for Failures