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[–] NichtElias@sh.itjust.works 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] oktupol@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My colleagues and I joke around that SAP stands for Sadness and Pain.

[–] twei@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago

As you may know SAP is a German company and the name originally was an acronym for SanduhrAnzeigeProgramm, which translates to "hourglass displaying program" - a nod to when busy software would change the mouse cursor into an hour glass - since it was initially conceived as a hardware stress test software - expanding to employee stress tests was just the logical next step.

Things got weird when scammers found a new hustle charging hundreds of dollars per hour pretending it was an ERP solution or similarly outrageous ideas that non-technical people in all kinds of business fell for.

(copied from reddit before it gets deleted)

[–] alec@wirebase.org 3 points 1 year ago