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I can't tell from far article and comments if this is a case of the company lying or the executive taking aspirational statements too literally. Though I'd expe
by version_five 3y ago
I can't tell from far article and comments if this is a case of the company lying or the executive taking aspirational statements too literally. Though I'd expect if he's at that level he would understand the difference, ie only make a big deal out of it if it really was lying.
The lawsuit also claimed that the CDP team "wanted to redefine the meaning of 'real-time,' so that it could falsely claim that the CDP operated in real-time."
This sounds credible though. Not anything Salesforce specific, just seems to be the new industry playbook, redefine already popular terms to suit what you want *cough* open source *cough*
- hesdeadjim 3y agoI’d bet money this VP hoped he’d get retaliated against so he could file a lawsuit and get some easy cash from a company with enough of it to pay him off. He works at Salesforce, what did he expect exactly.
- SpicyLemonZest 3y agoEspecially with terms like "real-time" that aren't tremendously well-defined in the first place. 100% of real-time systems I've seen in production defer some amount of work to out-of-band batches. In payments even parts of the critical path are reconciled once a day!
- HenryBemis 3y agoBut many banks' transactions do run/are realized in the end of the day. This is why (in vast majority, if not all banks) money that is deposited "today" are available "tomorrow".
- RJIb8RBYxzAMX9u 3y agoIn their defense, "real-time" has never been a precise term of art, even in the embedded computing space. Hence modifiers like "soft real-time" vs. "hard real-time" etc. IMHO, outside of embedded computing, it's effectively puffery, and should be treated as such.