[ale] linux commercial

[Cade Thacker]

A don't remember if it was for linux or not, (more then likely not), but
my favorite IT comercial(while we are on the topic), is about 5 to 6
people sitting around a table in a kinda space age gray room, debating
over who owns what, one guy was network, one middle where, on
applications, etc, but what made it classic was the old guy walking around
who was "legacy" saying something about "Back in my day..." and the grand
finally was some guys run through the side of the room in badit masks and
arms full of computer stuff(very obviously stealing), and they stop the
meeting and say "who the heck are you guys" and they reply "vendors", and
their reponse, "OK"  and they return to the meeting with out a second
thought. Kinda sounds like someplace I know and spend about 8 hours a day
;)

Just made me chuckle.


--cade

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On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Christopher Bergeron wrote:

> The commercial this guy is talking about is the one with the girl
> sitting in a metting (or a classroom or something).  Her pager goes
> off and she gets up to leave saying, "Network's down"... and he
> dismisses her understandably.  Next scene:  She's jumping into a
> convertible and cruising with some dude to Malibu.  He asks her, "How
> long do you think this linux thing is going to work?!"
>
> I like the basketball one too, but my favorite is when they show a
> bunch of cops following the CEO as they rush into the building.  As
> they're walking the CEO is saying, they took EVERYTHING; the SERVERS,
> the SOFTWARE, EVERYTHING!  They push open the door to the server farm
> and the IT guy is standing there eating a doughnut.  He says, "Uhh, we
> moved everything on to _that_ one (pointing at an IBM s/390[i think]
> sitting alone against the back wall.  The ceo looks dumbfounded, and
> he says, "I sent out an email..."
>
> It's a cool PR campaign...
>
> -CB
>
>
> Thursday, October 24, 2002, 5:02:55 PM, you wrote:
>
> JR> On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Stephen Turner wrote:
>
> >> holy cow! i just seen linux in a commercial!! i was getting ready to sleep
> >> (work gravyard) and had to boot up the comp just to say i seen linux :) im
> >> so estatic, i mean i heard like during the super bowl or something there
> >> was one but heck! i think the catch phrase was "ibm and linux makes
> >> networks bulletproof" :) it was about the lady that got out of a meeting
> >> and went to mallibu or maui something like that :-p, it was cool... ok im
> >> off my commercial linux high now :-p
>
> JR> If you think that's something, just wait 'till Oracle gets rolling. The
> JR> word I'm getting is that Oracle intends to make Linux it's platform of
> JR> choice by 2005.
>
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