On 31 May 2010 10:08:25 -0700, zedgarhoo...@gmail.com (zMan) wrote:

>After cleverly changing their name from "Computer Associates" to "CA"
>several years ago, CA has again renamed itself, this time to "CA
>Technologies". The first renaming was claimed to be to "Improve brand
>perception" (because, of course, folks wouldn't associate "CA" with whatever
>negative associations they might have had with "Computer Associates").
>Presumably this new renaming is to make it clear that these products are
>technological, rather than, say, spiritual or epistemological.

I understand Apple changing its name as its focus changed.   

But this sounds more like Arthur Anderson Consulting changing its name
to Accenture.

Or the Anglo-Persian Oil Company getting a very green BP logo...

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