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Anybody else think this renaming will go down in history as right up there with "Inprise"[1]? [1]: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2589416/inprise-to-cha
by mindcrime 5y ago
Anybody else think this renaming will go down in history as right up there with "Inprise"[1]?
[1]: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2589416/inprise-to-change-its---name-back-to-borland.html https://www.computerworld.com/article/2589416/inprise-to-cha...
- warrenm 5y agoMan! I had forgotten about the Borland/Inprise/Borland lunacy
- mindcrime 5y agoYeah, that was definitely one of the worst re-branding debacles in IT history as far as I can tell. The FB / Meta thing may be a bit different, but it definitely doesn't jump out to me as "Wow, what a Good Idea!" ya know?
- warrenm 5y agoGoogle's [quasi] rebranding to hide what each business unit was doing by becoming subsidiaries of Alphabet is still one of those weird things