back to article Salesforce joins 'smart' software bandwagon

Salesforce's Spring 17 release has arrived with Einstein inside, software that its creators hope will live up to its rather clever namesake. Where IBM chose to name its smarts-as-a-service platform after its first CEO, Thomas J Watson, Salesforce opted to have its ostensibly brainy code measured against a genuine intellectual …

  1. Gordon Pryra

    Complex things?

    Things?

    Einstein would have wept methinks

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Complex things?

      Indeed. Utterly shameless to seize the name of one of the greatest physicists who ever lived, and then plaster it on some shonky marketing software that does nothing clever, nothing groundbreaking, and has no relationship to either Einstein or his scientific interests.

      I suppose the Newton set an unwelcome precedent; at least Watson was a second fiddle fictional character rather than a scientific great having their name abused by marketing twats.

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: Complex things?

        Actually Watson is named after IBM's founder, Thomas J Watson

  2. M7S

    As I'm not smare enough to find the obligatory xkcd

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn8jPj9g_CM

  3. Keven E

    "Bandwagon" has got to be tongue-in-cheek usage

    "Profitable machine dependence" and "major decision - personal... made with the help of AI and cognitave technologies."

    This is why you don't have any friends.

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    As someone having to use a Salesforce product

    I have a large hammer in my car and I will use it with enormous pleasure to break the fingers on both hands of anyone who admits for coding for that evil pile of crap.

    Then I will smack them in the throbblies.

    Then I will do it all again on behalf of each of my work colleagues.

    Then I will smack them in the throbblies. Again.

    Anon for obvious reasons

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