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

[Chris Fowler]

I like the business genie.

The self-healing servers go with the magic pixie dust.


On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 22:36, Christopher Bergeron wrote:
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> Ok, this could be absolute coincidence; but I like to think that it's 
> strategic timing -
> 
> 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 -
> 
> CEO:  "What is it?"
> 
> Salesguy: "It's a business reality detector..."
> 
> CEO: "Does it work?"
> 
> Salesguy:   "Try it..."
> 
> CEO:  "Margaret, are we on schedule with the xyz project?"
> 
> Margaret:  "Everything is going as planned sir"    Machine buzzes - 
> RRRNNNNTTTT
> 
> CEO:  "Carter, what do you think?"
> 
> Carter:  "I don't think, I'm just a yes man...!"  Machine dings - ding 
> ding ding bleep
> 
> CEO:  "IT WORKS!"
> 
> COMMERCIAL FADAWAY - "THERE ARE NO BUSINESS REALITY DETECTORS"
> 
> THERE ARE IBM self healing servers (or something to that effect - I 
> might be mixing my IBM commercials up here).
> 
> 
> 
> The SHEER timing of this commercial is what really struck me, here.  I 
> don't think there could have been a better SPOT for IBM to put this 
> commercial in than after the Microsoft (we can do anything and solve all 
> your problems transparently) plot ^H^H^H^H spot.
> 
> 
> Anyway, just thought I'd share ...
> - -CB
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