Once again it's Super Bowl time ... and there's been a lot of talk in the
media about the exorbitant costs being paid by advertisers for
extraordinarily short ad spots on TV during the game.
Two years ago I came up with some super bowl commercial ideas
(
http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/200101/msg01281.html) and I thought
it was time for another few.
So once again I would like to submit, for your consideration and approval,
my fantasy iSeries Super Bowl ad's.
Advert #1
Scene: company board room ... large management meeting just about to come
to a close.
CEO: Ok, folks, the big sale was a huge success ... sales went through the
roof and we handled it well. Orders were taken fast, fulfilled fast, and
customers are happy. Go back to your teams and tell them, from me, "Good Job".
People file out of the board room, chatting among themselves.
CEO: Bob, could you wait a minute?
Bob (ITS Directory): What's on your mind Phil?
CEO (Phil): The order entry people told me that, when they hit their
busiest point, the computer system seemed to actually get faster. They
didn't expect that.
Bob: Oh I did ... that's the iSeries' "Capacity on Demand" feature. When
the system detects more work than it can handle, it activates backup
processing power automatically.
CEO: Oh, how much did that cost us when we bought the system?
Bob: Nothing when we bought the system ... we have to talk to IBM in the
next few weeks about it, but it's nothing I hadn't planned for.
CEO: Good thinking, Bob (slaps Bob on the back)
Bob: That's my job (smiles)
Both walk out of board room, fade to black
Fade in IBM & iSeries logo
Voice over: IBM eServer iSeries with Capacity on Demand ... "For when you
can't afford to be out of business"
End advert 1
I'm unsure of who I want to do the voice over ... originally I was thinking
James Earl Jones ... but my wife was suggesting Patrick Stuart. Martin
Sheen might be a good choice also.
Advert #2
Scene: CEO's office. Phil (CEO) & Bob (ITS Director) having a meeting.
CEO: Bob, we're about to finalize the acquisition of the new company... but
there's a problem with the computer systems. Their software runs on
Linux. We need to have it run here, but the budget won't let you buy more
servers or hire more resources until next year... and we have nothing to
shift around.
Bob: No problem, we'll just run the package on our current iSeries.
CEO: But the companies software runs on Linux.
Bob: Like I said, no problem ... we'll just activate Linux on the iSeries.
CEO: You can do that?
Bob: Yes, the iSeries let's us divide up its resources into partitions and
run different operating systems on it. We get the flexibility to run
Linux, with the reliability of the iSeries.
CEO: Ok, then there won't be a problem?
Bob: No problem at all.
Fade out
Fade in IBM & iSeries logo
Voice over: IBM eServer iSeries with Logical Partitioning ... "For when you
can't afford to be out of business"
End Advert #2
I'll admit that the ads were a bit high on the techno-babble, and they made
some generalizations, but aren't advertisements supposed to do that? :)
Once again, I give IBM unlimited rights to use the ideas in these
commercial concepts.
david
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