[ale] [OT]: IBM commercial timing...

[Pete Hardie]

Christopher Bergeron wrote:
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> Ok, this could be absolute coincidence; but I like to think that it's 
> strategic timing -
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> While watching the History channel tonight (just after 10pm), I saw a 
> Microsoft commercial showing how "great" .NET is and how it will link 
> "supply chains with vendors as if they 'had read our minds' ".   No 
> sooner had I let out a, "Pffffttt, yeah right!", did an IBM commercial 
> follow -
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> CEO:  "What is it?"
> 
> Salesguy: "It's a business reality detector..."

I love those commercials, too.  And the CDW ones - "I'm off to crash the server. 
  Wish me luck!".

And the latest Airtran one - where the CEO fires the guy over the phone, and is 
then seen spouting some pap about how employees are valued, when the fired guy 
body-check's him off the podium.....


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