Here is a play list (23rd of 34) IBM advertising videos. This was is titled "IBM take back control' from 4 years ago. Subtitled.
My favorite was the servers was stolen (turned out they were consolidated onto 1 Sys Z machine. On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 1:32 PM, R.S. <[email protected]> wrote: > (Disclaimer: this message is non-technical, but still about mainframes) > > Have you ever seen mainframe advertisement? > > I just realized that I have never ever seen any mainframe advertisement in > Poland. (*) > > Of course I'm aware that mainframe marketing is not the same as washing > powder business, but I have seen ads of HP server, Dec Alpha servers, more > general Dec Alpha technology (in the old times), Intel and AMD processors, > Sun machines, Oracle software, even DB2, AIX machines (System p, aka > pSeries, aka RS/6000), AS/400 machines, etc. etc. I don't mean laptops, > tablets and other "end-user" products. > > So, IT companies, including IBM do spend money on advertising their > "professional IT" products, but the mainframe is exception. > > Even IBM polish website is almost mainframe-free. Few pages with links to US > pages - that's all. > > How can they expect someone will really choose that platform, I mean new > customers? > > (*) I don't count content of Hot Topics magazine, but I count airline > magazines and ads in airport area ;-) > > -- > Radoslaw Skorupka > Lodz, Poland > > > > P.S. Not related to the topic above, but IMHO hot news: I just heard on TV > that former directors from IBM Poland and HP Poland was arrested, as well as > high ex-director of some government department (ministry of interior and > administration). Reason: bribery. They say he got approx. 1,6 million USD! > > > -- > Treść tej wiadomości może zawierać informacje prawnie chronione Banku > przeznaczone wyłącznie do użytku służbowego adresata. Odbiorcą może być > jedynie jej adresat z wyłączeniem dostępu osób trzecich. Jeżeli nie jesteś > adresatem niniejszej wiadomości lub pracownikiem upoważnionym do jej > przekazania adresatowi, informujemy, że jej rozpowszechnianie, kopiowanie, > rozprowadzanie lub inne działanie o podobnym charakterze jest prawnie > zabronione i może być karalne. Jeżeli otrzymałeś tę wiadomość omyłkowo, > prosimy niezwłocznie zawiadomić nadawcę wysyłając odpowiedź oraz trwale > usunąć tę wiadomość włączając w to wszelkie jej kopie wydrukowane lub > zapisane na dysku. > > This e-mail may contain legally privileged information of the Bank and is > intended solely for business use of the addressee. This e-mail may only be > received by the addressee and may not be disclosed to any third parties. If > you are not the intended addressee of this e-mail or the employee authorised > to forward it to the addressee, be advised that any dissemination, copying, > distribution or any other similar activity is legally prohibited and may be > punishable. If you received this e-mail by mistake please advise the sender > immediately by using the reply facility in your e-mail software and delete > permanently this e-mail including any copies of it either printed or saved > to hard drive. > BRE Bank SA, 00-950 Warszawa, ul. Senatorska 18, tel. +48 (22) 829 00 00, > fax +48 (22) 829 00 33, e-mail: [email protected] > Sąd Rejonowy dla m. st. Warszawy XII Wydział Gospodarczy Krajowego Rejestru > Sądowego, nr rejestru przedsiębiorców KRS 0000025237, NIP: 526-021-50-88. > Według stanu na dzień 01.01.2011 r. kapitał zakładowy BRE Banku SA (w > całości wpłacony) wynosi 168.346.696 złotych. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
