[ale] linux commercial -- "The Heist"

[Cade Thacker]

The pictures quality is really bad, but you get can get the gist of the
commercial, very funny.

http://www.ads.com/ads/adInfo.jsp?ad_id=1295&us=1490578&pt=0&sr=5


--cade

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On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Cade Thacker wrote:

> 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
>
> On Linux vs Windows
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> Remember, amateurs built the Ark, Professionals built the Titanic!
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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.
> >
> > JR> --
> > JR> Jonathan Rickman
> > JR> X Corps Security
> > JR> http://www.xcorps.net
> >
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