Something about this company sets off my spidey senses.
My company just put it in. If you look out in the web, there's almost something like a cult around it. Granted, a lot of people are making a lot of money "helping' companies implement this product. My company hired a consulting firm to do it.
I'm an old school IT admin. I'm looking at this conglomeration of a system and it frankly doesn't make any sense to me why there is so much raving about it and why it costs so much. Seems most of it is half-assed, poorly documented and needlessly costly and complicated. But I went out looking for opinions like mine and it seems that everything I find just gushes about how great it is and anyone who questions this is a luddite.
Now layer on top of that the owner is a wildly successful libtard billionaire/"philanthropist" and it really makes me wonder what's going on here.
I know maybe I'm not articulating this well, but I've been involved in implementing this product for almost a year, and I think we could have done it better and faster with our small in-house dev team and we wouldn't have a black box of code inside the bigger black box of code that is Salesforce housed on somebody else's cloud infrastructure that we're locked into for the next however many decades because it's almost impossible to port anywhere else. None of it makes any sense.
Don't know Frens. Usually when something doesn't make sense like this to me, it ends up being cabal related, but maybe I'm getting conspiratorial in my old age.
The hype and unjustified high cost you describe in the second paragraph is exactly how I feel about Starbucks. Like many trendy things, they are marketed to insecure people who just want to be associated with whatever the latest thing is. I’m hearing that giant “Stanley” cups are the latest craze among soccer moms.
The one thing about Starbucks that I appreciate in a very narrow set of circumstances is their consistency. You pretty much know what you're going to get - whether you like it or not is a different issue.
When I'm in an airport and I see a Starbucks, I go there. Only because I've had enough $8 airport coffee that tasted like ass to prefer to spend it on Starbucks burnt bitter crap. At least Starbucks will fill it full of cream and sugar to take the edge off.
Some of the stuff I had from a no-name stand in the Lauderdale airport was better used as paint remover than a beverage.