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by mindcrime 1698 days 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-cha...

1 comments

Man!

I had forgotten about the Borland/Inprise/Borland lunacy

Yeah, 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?

Google's [quasi] rebranding to hide what each business unit was doing by becoming subsidiaries of Alphabet is still one of those weird things