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Re:IBM to name infrastructure services business 'Kyndryl' af... by reflect on Monday April 12, 2021 @01:49PM (#26782608)
Naming new businesses is hard but come on- this type of horrible name should actually create a stock sell off.
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Re:IBM to name infrastructure services business 'Kyndryl' af... by ksaj on Monday April 12, 2021 @05:35PM (#26785500)
To my eyes and ears, the name makes me think of cough medicine. So it's not a name I would choose for an infrastructure services brand either.
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Re:IBM to name infrastructure services business 'Kyndryl' af... by mormegil on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @02:06AM (#26788608)
Near miss. https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinedryl is an antiemetic (preventing motion sickness) based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moxastine
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Re:IBM to name infrastructure services business 'Kyndryl' af... by ksaj on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @02:31PM (#26796870)
That's even better. It was Benadryl that I was thinking of.
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