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

Since Al had posted the heads-up a few days ago, I tried to pay attention to
the commercials but alas I only cought the end of the iSeries ad which aired
during the third quarter but I did catch the replay of the ad at the end of
the game except this time it was xSeries instead of iSeries being promoted
as the solution. So, I guess the real message is that you can swap out
your iSeries with an xSeries and achieve the same results. Oh well, I
guess any publicity is better than nothing... Thanks IBM.

Yeah the Steelers were impressive and unfortunately the Seahawks are looking
pretty good right now too.

Brian in SC


On 1/22/06, dr2@xxxxxxxx <dr2@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> 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.
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> Looks like IBM's taking the same ad format and cloning it for i/p/x.
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> 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!
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> Don in DC
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