On Friday, 04/02/2010 at 11:04 EDT, Edward M Martin <emar...@aultman.com> wrote: > Yep, and remember the commercials about how someone ?stole? the servers, and it > turned out they were all together on the IBM Blade servers. You do not see any > commercials for any IBM z boxes or z software.
There has been one: Back in 2007-2008, there was "The Grail" from IBM's "Stop Talking, Start Doing" campaign. (Not to be confused with a 2004 IBM infrastructure ad of the same name.) In it the shady-looking blackhats are gathered 'round a pickup truck containing System z9 (see nameplate in slo-mo). The Brawn is happy, knowing it has millions of credit card numbers and PIN numbers. The Brain note "it's got cryptographic co-processors, RACF, logon encryption; I can't break this." (Let us *assume* that the disk drives are in a 2nd off-camera truck.) This commercial was unusual in that it talked about a specific software product that wasn't in the Tivoli, Rational, DB2, Websphere, or Lotus brands. While the original "Heist" commercial featured a z900 (I think - based on stripe), neither the it nor mainframes in general were mentioned. (The "Heist II" series of commercials featured BladeCenter.) Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
