I had to make a web app sync with Salesforce a couple years back, and walked away with a similar impression. It’s like every awful idea that the rest of the ind

I had to make a web app sync with Salesforce a couple years back, and walked away with a similar impression. It’s like every awful idea that the rest of the industry discarded quietly made a home there (remember SOAP?). One particular gem: the platform prides itself on extreme flexibility of metadata, the ability to throw together new columns and tables to suit any need. One atomic data object is an address (street city state zip nation), every Person entry in the database could have one. In the company I was working for, it was very common for the customers (rich people) to have multiple homes, so I was tasked with adding support for that. It turned out that the ability to have multiple address units for a user was a “just around the corner” feature for fifteen years with no end in sight… Salesforce belongs in the bonfire with Internet Explorer 6 and AOL.