Kill the "Killer" Phrase

"The Pro/E Killer"

"The AutoCAD Killer"

"The Visio Killer"

I say it's time to kill the phrase "The xxxxx Killer." Mainly because it never comes true. Tri/Spectives didn't kill Pro/E but just about committed suicide. Same for IntelliCAD. And it was Actrix that got killed off by Autodesk following Microsoft's purchase of Visio.

So now it's a CNET blog that's declaring "Gliffy, the online Visio killer" -- although in this case I think it's a pun on "Buffy the teenage vampire killer." (Which leads me to wonder, why kill teenage vampires? Are they easier to kill than middle-age vampires... is it even legal to kill vampires... which vigilante decided vampires needed killing... aren't vampires rare enough to be declared an endangered species ... would it be cruel to place them in a zoo? The mind reels.)

Reports the anonymous contributor, Two guys with some time on their hands have created a tool that might just become a Visio-killer. Gliffy is a free diagramming tool that works entirely in your browser.

After being annointing it with "Visio Killer" status, Mr Anon admits, "... it doesn't have a feature set to make it competitive with Visio." I wish writers would make logical connections between what they write in one paragraph and in the next paragraph.

Comments

[glenn]

killer blog post Ralph ;0)

nice touch