I, like Bob, don't remember anything that was said... only the small black server in a large, brightly lit room with two stooges looking at it and rambling to each other. They didn't "sell" me on the technology or on IBM.
IBM needs to dump that ad agency and get real IBM technologists to talk to the audience. Folks like Jim, Greg, Mark, Jonathan or Peter (or any number of other candidates -- like, say, folks from IBM research!) who understand customer issues and can actually communicate in clear non-football sentences. The game itself was pretty good... in the final 4 minutes (late, late, late). Maybe IBM should just buy air time to replace the first 50 or so minutes of the game to let their people talk about z/Series? -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:00:55 -0500, Richards.Bob wrote: >They sure did! Two of them in fact. > >Both have a z9 as the only server in a datacenter similar to empty datacenter in "The Heist". In the first commercial, a guy throws a football at it, which, of course, it does not catch. I forget the dialog. In the second ad, the actor that was used in "The Heist" that panicked and called the police is used again here. Again, I forget the dialog. What I do remember though (hey, it was late) is that both ads made me smile. > > -----Original Message----- >>From Knutson, Sam: >> >>OK so now that it's over for those of us who didn't stay up that late >>did IBM run a new commercial? >>>-----Original Message----- >>> >>>By the way, I'm going to be watching the American Broadcasting Company's >>>telecast of Monday Night Football on November 14th, although I may not >>>be paying attention to the game itself. >>>- - - - - >>>Timothy F. Sipples ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
