dave17lax
Inventor of the Egg Wave
If America's attention span is really this bad, what is next...
Around 6 months ago Dell started some ads with two IT guys. The guys in the ads would say something, and text would pop up showing "what they are really thinking". I can't find an example on the web, but here's one..
"Haven't seen you in awhile, how's business?"
Meaning: Where have you been? I need to network for a new job!
"Oh fine, we just installed Dell blah blah blah"
Meaning: We're rolling in dough...
This got on my nerves because one of the commercials mentions "A proprietary linux system" and how the guy is really thinking that they have too much overhead; maybe a "bleeding" IT dept.
As if.
Now, within the last week or two, Dell has come out with commercials that laud Dell's cooperation with linux based systems. Example:
"We're running a linux cluster of Dell Xeon to the 3rd power blade server blah blah blah"
Meaning: We're rolling in dough.
I am sure that someone out there has seen these ads, and it really chaps my hide that this stupid company would A) be stupid enough to crap on linux a few months ago, B) be audacious enough to act like best buds now.
It seems to me that a marketing department would have enough sense to send out some feelers and understand the market before making broad statements like this. The anti-linux sentiment may work fine for consumer sales, but these are server ads. There are no interns, or the delldude, it's a couple of unlikely IT guys that once knew each other, before one "saw the light" and got his company to go with Dell.
I want to throw up.
Around 6 months ago Dell started some ads with two IT guys. The guys in the ads would say something, and text would pop up showing "what they are really thinking". I can't find an example on the web, but here's one..
"Haven't seen you in awhile, how's business?"
Meaning: Where have you been? I need to network for a new job!
"Oh fine, we just installed Dell blah blah blah"
Meaning: We're rolling in dough...
This got on my nerves because one of the commercials mentions "A proprietary linux system" and how the guy is really thinking that they have too much overhead; maybe a "bleeding" IT dept.
As if.
Now, within the last week or two, Dell has come out with commercials that laud Dell's cooperation with linux based systems. Example:
"We're running a linux cluster of Dell Xeon to the 3rd power blade server blah blah blah"
Meaning: We're rolling in dough.
I am sure that someone out there has seen these ads, and it really chaps my hide that this stupid company would A) be stupid enough to crap on linux a few months ago, B) be audacious enough to act like best buds now.
It seems to me that a marketing department would have enough sense to send out some feelers and understand the market before making broad statements like this. The anti-linux sentiment may work fine for consumer sales, but these are server ads. There are no interns, or the delldude, it's a couple of unlikely IT guys that once knew each other, before one "saw the light" and got his company to go with Dell.
I want to throw up.