markitecture 

A computing or networking architecture suggested by the marketing department for sales purposes rather than for technical reasons. Cisco calls them "reference designs".

The oldest mention of "markitecture" I can find dates back from 1990 :

CA 90s was characterized as a "markitecture" by Jeff Schulman, vice president and analyst with the Gartner Group, Stamford, Conn. "It is a marketing architecture, a statement of direction. It does not specify when products will be delivered, or which products will map to the architecture. It does not help users in a specific sense, only in a general sense".

markitecture by liotier February 26, 2010

marchitecture 

A portmanteau of "marketing" and "architecture". The result when the marketing department of a tech company has an excessive hand in the design of a product, often to the detriment of performance, though usually for the explicit purpose of driving the sale price up. Popularized by The Inquirer.

1. Does "centrino" actually do anything or is it just a piece of marchitecture?

2. Apple's OSX is totally being loaded down with marchitecture.

marchitecture by Isaac February 19, 2005

Marketecture 

(1) A theoretical product architecture, conjured up by the marketing department, that has no similiarity to any product(s) on the drawing board, nor in production.

(2) A company's reference a set of products obtained through acquisition, where no interoperation exists, but might be cobbled together to seem to implement the original intent.

We're being told the new marketecture will include all of our competitor's features.

Marketecture by John B. Young May 22, 2007

Marchitecture 

The non-existent system architecture used to sell a high-tech product. Vaporware on a grand scale.

That router is part of Cisco's Marchitecture for mobility.

Marchitecture by Bob Bohica March 15, 2004