When Business Objects released version 11 of its software, the Marketing team got a hold of it and dubbed the version XI, for "Extreme Insight". Since then, they haven't let the XI go, so the next release became XI R2. The next release was planned to be XI R3, but then Business Objects got bought by SAP, which already has a product called R3. So the release was rebranded as XI 3.0, which is really version 14 of the suite. Perfectly clear, right?
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When Business Objects released version 11 of its software, the Marketing team got a hold of it and dubbed the version XI, for "Extreme Insight". Since then, they haven't let the XI go, so the next release became XI R2. The next release was planned to be XI R3, but then Business Objects got bought by SAP, which already has a product called R3. So the release was rebranded as XI 3.0, which is really version 14 of the suite. Perfectly clear, right?