On Friday 15 March 2002 03:04 pm, Baumgarte, Randy (CORP) wrote:
> According to the first article, Sun isn't trying to hide anything.
>
>
> IBM schedules meetings
> Santa Clara, CA - In a stunning response to continued assaults by industry
> titan IBM, Sun Microsystems today launched a web site. www.bigbluesmoke.com
> is reported to be the first known use of Internet Technology Competitive
> Humor (ITCH).

"Stunning?"

Let's see....Vendor A makes claims in public, using traditional tools such as
press releases, ads, and vendor A's own web sites.

Vendor B decides to refute Vendor A's claims on Vendor B's web site. And
in this case, "Humor" is defined as "making ordinary, uncreative advertising
statements but putting it into a newspaper-like format." Mere page mechanics.

Wow. I'm stunned. Quick, where's my "add to bookmarks" function key for this
valuable new web resource?

<yawn>

Scott

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