Re: IBM Advert during Steelers/Broncho's game... -- MIDRANGE-L

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Well good...I thought I had missed the ad. Guess I didn't...

Go Steelers!

On 1/22/06 06:19 PM, "dr2@xxxxxxxx" <dr2@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Well...inside the 2 minute warning...GREAT placement for an ad..I thought
> it was a iSeries ad...looked just like all those ads we only see at
> COMMON...had the room full of obviousely WinTel servers and all the people
> with their usual laments about how the servers were taking over and how
> they needed to buy more servers....and then the guy comes in and tells
> them that they're consolidating servers...this looked just like the
> iSeries advert....but at the end the announcer and logo say: IBM xSeries
> servers.  Intel/Windows wins again.
> 
> Looks like IBM's taking the same ad format and cloning it for i/p/x.
> 
> More product line blurring.  Just what we really need when people still
> don't know what "i" can really do for them....they get another dose of
> Gates.
> 
> At least the Steelers were impressive!
> 
> Don in DC
>

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