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

[dr2@xxxxxxxx]

I'm not sure that continued confusion of the marketplace is in the best
interest of iSeries or any of ours JOB SECURITY!

And, I'm not sure that positioning the iSeries as just another windows
server, albeit a mega-server, is in the best interest of i5/os or the
great folks that put it all together.....

Oh, Caveman, our Caveman....shed your leash....

Don in DC

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> 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:
>>
>> 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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