Re: new ibm ad

2002-02-07 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 21:55:27 -0500 dep [EMAIL PROTECTED] bemusedly noted: new ibm linux ad, based on basketball: how can anybody that good play for peanuts? loves the game. just now on of all places the weather channel. === Yeah, ibm has done a pretty fair job lately of

Re: new ibm ad

2002-02-07 Thread dep
begin Michael Scottaline's quote: | Yeah, ibm has done a pretty fair job lately of putting linux before | the public and using sports analogies (especially during sports | shows). I certainly doesn't hurt the public's perception of | Linux to have ibm in such a supportive role (regardless of

Re: new ibm ad

2002-02-07 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 09:55:27PM -0500, dep wrote: new ibm linux ad, based on basketball: how can anybody that good play for peanuts? loves the game. just now on of all places the weather channel. Anybody else see yesterday's Silicon Spin show on techtv? Dvorak was talking to people from

Re: new ibm ad

2002-02-07 Thread Rick Sivernell
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 11:13:02 -0800 Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 09:55:27PM -0500, dep wrote: new ibm linux ad, based on basketball: how can anybody that good play for peanuts? loves the game. just now on of all places the weather channel. Anybody else

Re: new ibm ad

2002-02-07 Thread dep
begin Bill Campbell's quote: | Anybody else see yesterday's Silicon Spin show on techtv? Dvorak | was talking to people from IBM, HP, and an open standards guy | about Linux in the Enterprise. I found it pretty interesting. yeah, i saw it. the voices of those of us screaming linux on the

Re: new ibm ad

2002-02-07 Thread Michael Hipp
These things remind why I always admired IBM (even when I despised them) - they're one of the few companies that will build stuff like this just to see if they can. RIP: private sector RD. Michael dep pontificated eloquently: [snip] hey -- you see *this*?

Re: new ibm ad

2002-02-07 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Speaking of all this I just read a good article from NetworkWorld on Linux in the Enterprise, and I have to give you this quote: On Windows NT/2000 servers, we wind up just prophylactically rebooting servers and scheduling downtime once a week. - Joe Inzerillo United Center of Chicago

Re: new ibm ad

2002-02-07 Thread dep
begin Michael Hipp's quote: | These things remind why I always admired IBM (even when I despised | them) - they're one of the few companies that will build stuff like | this just to see if they can. RIP: private sector RD. yeah, though it annoys me that i can't have one. -- dep There is

RE: new ibm ad

2002-02-07 Thread Condon Thomas A KPWA
new ibm linux ad, based on basketball: how can anybody that good play for peanuts? loves the game. I think this is a *very* subtle ad for SuSE. The player wearing the Linux jersey is Detlef Schrempf, former NBA player (Portland last year, Seattle several years before that and Dallas

Re: new ibm ad

2002-02-07 Thread Ian
dep wrote: begin Bill Campbell's quote: | Anybody else see yesterday's Silicon Spin show on techtv? Dvorak | was talking to people from IBM, HP, and an open standards guy | about Linux in the Enterprise. I found it pretty interesting. yeah, i saw it. the voices of those of us

Re: new ibm ad

2002-02-07 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 07:23:09PM -0500, Ian wrote: ... I've not watched Silicon Spin in a long time...from the site it looks like you have to watch it at specific times...the only thing I see in the archives are a month old. Am I not seeing a link or something? The main broadcast daily is

new ibm ad

2002-02-06 Thread dep
new ibm linux ad, based on basketball: how can anybody that good play for peanuts? loves the game. just now on of all places the weather channel. -- dep There is sobbing of the strong, And a pall upon the land; But the People in their weeping Bare the iron hand; Beware the People weeping