Comment by version_five | Hacker News Reader

Comment by version_five | Hacker News Reader

I can't tell from far article and comments if this is a case of the company lying or the executive taking aspirational statements too literally. Though I'd expect if he's at that level he would understand the difference, ie only make a big deal out of it if it really was lying.

  The lawsuit also claimed that the CDP team "wanted to redefine the meaning of 'real-time,' so that it could falsely claim that the CDP operated in real-time."

This sounds credible though. Not anything Salesforce specific, just seems to be the new industry playbook, redefine already popular terms to suit what you want *cough* open source *cough*

Especially with terms like "real-time" that aren't tremendously well-defined in the first place. 100% of real-time systems I've seen in production defer some amount of work to out-of-band batches. In payments even parts of the critical path are reconciled once a day!

But many banks' transactions do run/are realized in the end of the day. This is why (in vast majority, if not all banks) money that is deposited "today" are available "tomorrow".

I’d bet money this VP hoped he’d get retaliated against so he could file a lawsuit and get some easy cash from a company with enough of it to pay him off.

He works at Salesforce, what did he expect exactly.

In their defense, "real-time" has never been a precise term of art, even in the embedded computing space. Hence modifiers like "soft real-time" vs. "hard real-time" etc. IMHO, outside of embedded computing, it's effectively puffery, and should be treated as such.

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