IBM scored second on the love list, with 65 percent, but its score was based on only 2,000 ratings. Cisco, music software vendor Ableton and analytics vendor SAS Institute rounded out the top five most-loved.

The last one is perhaps to be expected, given the many "best place to work" awards SAS

But a closer look at the results indicates the current limitations of Amplicate's text-analysis capabilities, with many comments not referring to the vendor at all, and instead to things like the Canadian city of Saskatoon and the video game SAS: Zombie Assault.

Meanwhile, ERP (enterprise-resource-planning) vendor SAP has not so far on Amplicate, with a 93 percent "hate" rating as of Friday. That's behind Oracle, toward which only 72 percent of comments express some form of hatred.

"SAP is a great piece of software (for the 50's)!!!" one of more than 200 negative remarks reads. "If you see the code, the only thing you want is to leave and run away from it. It's the biggest ball of stinky mud I've ever seen in my life," another bemoans.