Potential in place of purpose is what separates an iPad from an iPod, blockchains from databases, and generative AI from text editors. The more complex the product, the more potential it has to have potential. The more it can distract from it's own lack of usefulness.
Salesforce is so funny to me cause cloud computing, databases, large datasets, etc. are basically all I do professionally; I’ve met people from Salesforce, I’ve seen talks from Salesforce; I’m more-or-less aware of how Tableu works, which they own.
Gun to my head, I would never be able to tell you what the fuck that company sells. For all I can tell it’s door-to-door cookie Sales by a Force of girl scouts. I was to their site more than a dozen times, I read through their wiki article, I tried to find out wtf they do, no luck. It’s like an SCP monster that erases all prior knowledge of it you had the moment you stop looking. They played everyone for absolute fools.
CRM as a service with a fucking ton of whatever dumb bullshit they think they might be able to sell you on top
the CRM as a service bit more or less works? probably? with work at your end? We use it at the day job and it’s like better than not. It’s the ultimate boring-but-functional product for enterprises.
But invoices have to be for something, right? Like IBM has hardware and the best-in-industry vendor lock-in. My alma mater is going to be paying for that IBM Mainframe in the basement that runs the entire fucking school until the Sun itself abandons us.
No, invoices need to be for “something”. There are many, many businesses in this world that make constant bank on bullshit
Your alma mater isn’t paying megabux to support that mainframe itself, relative to IBM’s total income, but I bet you’d find many extras tacked on that make a significant contribution
I didn’t know about Slack and Salesforce. But, man, what a perfect match of captive userbase softwares
Salesforce is so funny to me cause cloud computing, databases, large datasets, etc. are basically all I do professionally; I’ve met people from Salesforce, I’ve seen talks from Salesforce; I’m more-or-less aware of how Tableu works, which they own.
Gun to my head, I would never be able to tell you what the fuck that company sells. For all I can tell it’s door-to-door cookie Sales by a Force of girl scouts. I was to their site more than a dozen times, I read through their wiki article, I tried to find out wtf they do, no luck. It’s like an SCP monster that erases all prior knowledge of it you had the moment you stop looking. They played everyone for absolute fools.
CRM as a service with a fucking ton of whatever dumb bullshit they think they might be able to sell you on top
the CRM as a service bit more or less works? probably? with work at your end? We use it at the day job and it’s like better than not. It’s the ultimate boring-but-functional product for enterprises.
now now david, you know you’re contractually obligated to say CRM for enterprise. always.
SFDC murderninja squads have been dispatched to …resolve… this infraction.
I’m sorry, but that is already taken by Excel.
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@V0ldek NoNoNo, Excel is *sometimes* useful. For ultimate uselessness, try PowerPoint.
similar to IBM’s business really: invoices, lawsuits, and (at meta level) Vibes
Benioff is quite a piece of work
But invoices have to be for something, right? Like IBM has hardware and the best-in-industry vendor lock-in. My alma mater is going to be paying for that IBM Mainframe in the basement that runs the entire fucking school until the Sun itself abandons us.
No, invoices need to be for “something”. There are many, many businesses in this world that make constant bank on bullshit
Your alma mater isn’t paying megabux to support that mainframe itself, relative to IBM’s total income, but I bet you’d find many extras tacked on that make a significant contribution
it’s almost like antitrust enforcement would be a good thing