I use a piece of CAD software called Pro/ENGINEER. No problem, right? Except the last three releases, instead of giving Release versions or the year for identifying it, have been “Wildfire (Rev #)”. Great, name your software after a natural disaster, especially when it is an appropriate metaphor for the recent releases. Better yet, they’ve named their PDM system “Windchill”. What’s next, Earthquake? Tsunami? Hurricane? I think Sinkhole would make a nice name for one of their products, considering how much of my time it sucks up.
I’ve name the various computers under my aegis after characters in Hamlet (but not Hamlet itself). Someone asked me who Hamlet was supposed to be…it’s me, of course, being driven mad and unable to make decisions because of the actions of these other characters. And I’m half inclined to toss ophelia in a puddle of water sometimes, the bitch.
Not software but mostly hardware – the new MicroSoft media player, Zune, when pronounced “Britishly” as “Zyun” sounds EXACTLY like the Hebrew word for “a fuck” (the noun.) It’s already famous… :dubious: (haven’t seen anybody actually buying one, though. Just asking to see it!)
Once upon a time there was a company named ViaGrafix that offered computer courseware. I understand that more than one purchase request was turned down because TPTB didn’t see why their company should pay for a Viagra Fix.
And I thought our SPLAT was bad. (Syndicated/Participated Loan Administration and Tracking - something for managing those enormous real estate deals that are so big they’re done with multiple banks)
Some NetWare 2.x versions came on several floppy disks (18 IIRC), the first of which was labelled OS-EXE-1 but universally referred to as Oh, Sexy One!
Sorry - a feeble attempt at humor. Let me explain. IMNSHO, MS Word can handle letters, and even individual words just fine. It does less well for sentences, paragraphs, chapters, and larger compilations.
[crickets]
Yeah, nobody laughed, and the frog died. There’s a reason my dopername is Typo Knig and not Humor King.
Not a name, but still counterimpressive - the very expensive (hundreds of dollars a month for one user) computational fluid dynamics package called “Fluent” gradually fills your desktop with icons that are labeled “Kill Fluent”. I’ve asked the maker why, and they just shrug and say, “Oh, that…”.
When a friend of mine and I worked for a certain (unnamed) company, she had to write a program that sent emails to users. The users had the ability to ask for and stop the emails (and yes, this ability actually worked), but she still was against the practice.
So, she named the program:
(company) - name started with S Personal Affininity Marketing Tool
