adding company Foo uses mod_perl ads
As I was leaving Vegas I saw that billboard saying: Adidas uses SAP And I suppose that they run a bunch of similar ads using other big companies names. I think this is an interesting approach of advertising, where instead of advertising the merits of your product or going down on your competitors, you use a concrete example of a well known company that uses your software. So I thought to myself that in addition to our collection of: http://perl.apache.org/outstanding/sites.html http://perl.apache.org/outstanding/success_stories/index.html it'd be interesting to add some small ads similar to the ones used by SAP, though on the left menu bar at perl.apache.org, rather than billboards. e.g. TicketMaster uses mod_perl InternetMovieDatabase uses mod_perl Slashdot uses mod_perl etc. Of course if folks are willing to put them on their sites, that would be great too. But my point here is that when an IT person comes to perl.apache.org but who is still not convinced that mod_perl is something that he wants, this kind of local ads can help to make the right decision :) I guess a simple ImageMagic/GD script that glues the name on the prepared base and doing some color alternation will do the work of making several such ads without manual labour. And then we can randomly spread these at the perl.apache.org pages. Of course it'd be cool to use SVG, but unfortunately we are a long way before major browsers will support it and having users having these newer browsers :( __ Stas BekmanJAm_pH -- Just Another mod_perl Hacker http://stason.org/ mod_perl Guide --- http://perl.apache.org mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://use.perl.org http://apacheweek.com http://modperlbook.org http://apache.org http://ticketmaster.com
Re: adding company Foo uses mod_perl ads
You're absolutely right about this, more importantly that IT manglement tends to be really impressed by that.It doesn't seem to matter how many advantages I espouse to my managers here, nothing convinces them more quickly than Company X uses mod_perl. Kinda like they're not willing to come up with their own decisions :) I find that We used at eToys works far better than reasons *why* we used it. You know you're going to have a bad day when you see the sun come up. Over the curb. Brian Nilsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Stas Bekman wrote: As I was leaving Vegas I saw that billboard saying: Adidas uses SAP And I suppose that they run a bunch of similar ads using other big companies names. I think this is an interesting approach of advertising, where instead of advertising the merits of your product or going down on your competitors, you use a concrete example of a well known company that uses your software. So I thought to myself that in addition to our collection of: http://perl.apache.org/outstanding/sites.html http://perl.apache.org/outstanding/success_stories/index.html it'd be interesting to add some small ads similar to the ones used by SAP, though on the left menu bar at perl.apache.org, rather than billboards. e.g. TicketMaster uses mod_perl InternetMovieDatabase uses mod_perl Slashdot uses mod_perl etc. Of course if folks are willing to put them on their sites, that would be great too. But my point here is that when an IT person comes to perl.apache.org but who is still not convinced that mod_perl is something that he wants, this kind of local ads can help to make the right decision :) I guess a simple ImageMagic/GD script that glues the name on the prepared base and doing some color alternation will do the work of making several such ads without manual labour. And then we can randomly spread these at the perl.apache.org pages. Of course it'd be cool to use SVG, but unfortunately we are a long way before major browsers will support it and having users having these newer browsers :( __ Stas BekmanJAm_pH -- Just Another mod_perl Hacker http://stason.org/ mod_perl Guide --- http://perl.apache.org mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://use.perl.org http://apacheweek.com http://modperlbook.org http://apache.org http://ticketmaster.com
Re: adding company Foo uses mod_perl ads
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Stas Bekman wrote: advertising the merits of your product or going down on your competitors ^^ For future reference, this phrase has certain ... um ... sexual connotations, at least in the US. :-o (Of course, so does the way I sign my e-mails. ;-) ky
Re: adding company Foo uses mod_perl ads
Ken Y. Clark wrote: On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Stas Bekman wrote: advertising the merits of your product or going down on your competitors ^^ For future reference, this phrase has certain ... um ... sexual connotations, at least in the US. :-o And that's exactly what some of them do... without involving implicit sex though ;) __ Stas BekmanJAm_pH -- Just Another mod_perl Hacker http://stason.org/ mod_perl Guide --- http://perl.apache.org mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://use.perl.org http://apacheweek.com http://modperlbook.org http://apache.org http://ticketmaster.com
