Why web engines take musical names
mainWe learn today that Violin Memory, the computer-data storage company, has sacked a quarter of its staff after poor results.
Opera, the popular browser, has developed an effective ad-blocking system online.
Symphony is a high-performance software system.
Orchestra develops could-based software solutions.
Maestro is a NASA program.
Conductor specialises in web presence management.
These people tell us classical music is obsolete.
As they steal our clothes.
Sibelius doesn’t look too well.
A bit of a stretch.
Equally_Invalid_Are()
{
// Food
(spam, java, cookies, apples) -> they’re eating our lunch;
// OR housing :
(windows, tables, switches mailbox) -> not very accommodating;
// OR animals:
(tomcat, bugs, gopher, python) -> sucking the life out of us;
// AND a host of other phony correlations.
}
Get with the program.
You could also list the poorly-named Symfony (a PHP framework)
I’ll bet Alta Vista was some kind of plot to popularise violas, too.
And look what happened to that! ;))
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