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Comment by chrisseaton | Hacker News Reader

If you didn't have a old-style corporate job, how would you encounter Citrix?

Because it is a very well known software company. I have never used Citrix, but to me its as a name the same way as VMWare, SAP, EMC, Salesforce and Intuit is.

Again, all those are old-style enterprise software. If you didn't work in a legacy corporate environment, you'd never encounter them.

I think anyone who has ever had a sales or support job has to deal with Salesforce in one form or the other.

Umm. If you file taxes with a computer, you’re using Intuit.

If you have a datacenter, it has a good shot of running some VMware.

If you run logistics at almost any medium sized or bigger company, you’re using SAP or Oracle.

If you have a group of employees that sell things, Salesforce is common.

This is the software that literally runs the world. If you’re not familiar with it, then you’re ignorant about how the world works. Nothing wrong with that of course, but I don’t understand the pride in it. Especially on HN, where Hackers tend to be curious.

Intuit has no relevance if you don’t live in the US

Turbotax sure (includes Canada), but Quickbooks is used globally.

There are many countries (the UK I can say with certainty, but I believe also the EU), where no 3rd party software is needed to complete a tax return for a typical person.

Either it's completely automatic (like most PAYE employees in the UK), or the tax system is simplified to point where it's a simple form to complete.

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