One of the more fun and challenging marketing activities is brainstorming product names (aka “namestorming”). “Collabodroid” was one of those funny, but somewhat useless–at least for the enterprise software market–names that popped out during a recent namestorming session at Seapine.

In the future, or the distance past according to StarWars, droids will take over the more mundane tasks in our lives. In the software development world, specialized Collabodroids will facilitate collaboration in a team environment. They may help transform or transport data, or they may watch, learn, and help automate a task such as regression testing.

Fortunately, Collabodroids will not render us obsolete. We’ll still have to program, debug, and virus protect them. There’s also a good chance they’ll be based on some version of Windows, so we’ll probably have to reboot them frequently.

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