stove pipe
v.— «In short, Apple had the sort of confusion present at most older organizations, where databases grew up with stove-piped or isolated islands of proprietary automation.» —“In The New Era Of Systems Architecture, Apple Is Mr. (Frank Lloyd) Wright” by Sally Atkins Open Systems Today Sept. 20, 1993. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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