What's the best system name you've heard?

[stephen hazel]

I just came across one at work called PITA. Now, I'm not sure what that stands for, but I'm sure the users know... I'd love to have written that system. Heard any other good system names?

[Lost User]

Well I just found these[^] in a CP article; just pronounce as you see it, and a Geordie accent helps ;)

[B rad A]

I have heard the suggestion of "mama jama" but I am pretty sure that will not be in the top 10 ;P

[Mustafa Ismail Mustafa]

"Blue POS" Every time I go to the local supermarket, I see that at the very top of his screen and it never fails to amuse me :)

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[Pete OHanlon]

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a Geordie accent helps

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[Chris Losinger]

i had a laptop i ended up calling "Godot", because it took Dell a month to ship it to me.

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[Pete OHanlon]

Years ago I worked on a system called SMOC*. It was great to be able to tell people not to mock SMOC. Prior to that I worked on a toolset called AMARTA - the company that owned it had one of these rebranding exercises where a bunch of arty-farty latte swilling goatee-shaggers "brainstormed" and came up with a new symbol for the company and AMARTA that was effectively a blue blob. They called it a biomorphous blob which stimulated ideas and creativity because it could mean anything. We called it an expensive waste of time, but it wasn't long before somebody ran the blob through Photoshop - a quick filter later and the blob was red; thus was born TAMARTA - much to the disgust of senior management. *Symettrical Multivariable Optimising Controller.

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[Henry Minute]

I once implemented a system called BUTOCS. Business Unit Timesheet Operation Control System

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[stephen hazel]

I guess the best system name I've actually DONE was FSS It stood for Factory Status System. But, you know, to me it was always ****in' stupid system.

[stephen hazel]

Seriously?? That would be AWESOME!

[Henry Minute]

True.

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[Tom Delany]

Usually, PITA stands for "Pain in the A**".

[Pete OHanlon]

Sounds like it should be called Business On Line Operation Control System.

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[PIEBALDconsult]

"What's in a name?" I don't recall any good/odd product names, but I do know that one should never allow a developer to pick a name: On my last job (a taxicab company), the president continually asked we developers to give our systems names that he could promote. Among the many I proposed was "Transportation Information Tracking System". Eventually the president stopped asking.

[Miszou]

I once (long, long ago) wrote a map editor for Rise of the Triad[^], called Throttle. The Rise Of The Triad Level Editor It was written in Borland C++ 3.1 with OWL for Windows 3.1. I still have the source code for it, but I highly doubt I could get it to compile, even if I still had the compiler. Although it might be fun to make a Windows 3.1 VM and see if it still works... :cool:

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[BonshatS]

We called one QMDC for quarter million dollar clock.

[ian dennis 0]

I'm currently working on an Electronic Pick Up / Delivery system, which the client insists on calling EPUD. I'm also working on a management system for our Patriot Advanced Capability missile build system. Again, the client had the last word on naming it .... PACMAN! :)

[Lost User]

Back in the day when I was the IT guy, sys admin and DB guru at work we brought up our first MRP system. Like most inventory systems, the cost accountants needed to assign costing methods to inventory items. Naturally there was: FIFO - First In, First Out LIFO - Last In, First Out After a few years we lovingly referred to some items as FISH - First In, Still Here

[Gary R Wheeler]

We've had PIMP, PIGLET, and SWiFT where I work. Yes, they were all acronyms for systems we actually sold. No, I don't remember what they stood for.

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[Jason Christian]

I offered up T.... Implementation Tool once. It didn't fly. So sad.