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by warrenm 1697 days ago
Man!

I had forgotten about the Borland/Inprise/Borland lunacy

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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