"We put the dot in dot-com" - ??? - I think they got scared that they were starting to lose relevancy in the internet age. It turned out that Sun hardware was a poor choice if you really wanted to scale.
"We put the dot in dot-com" - ??? - I think they got scared that they were starting to lose relevancy in the internet age. It turned out that Sun hardware was a poor choice if you really wanted to scale.
Microsoft: "Oh yeah? Well we put the COM into dot-com. Pthththth!"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component_Object_Model
IBM: ”When they put the dot into dot-com, they forgot how they were going to connect the dots. Badoom psssh!”
https://www.itbusiness.ca/news/ibm-brings-on-demand-computin...
Yes, it's marketing fluff (as with any marketing), but I liked that one.
For all you tech people like me that have problems answering to non-techie family members what you do, I thought that was an example of a beautiful succinct answer that still conveyed enough of an idea to be satisfying to laymen.
As for one I really hated from Sun: "Java Desktop System", which was just a distro with GNOME, and had nothing to do with Java.
[0] https://serverfault.com/questions/134611/why-no-final-dot-fo...
"You know, the one you've never heard of."