Looks like this ad is receiving some mainstream press coverage: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=569&e=13&u=/nm/media_ibm_advertising_dc
-matt On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Michael Halcrow wrote: > Something to look forward to. :-) > > During the US Open and the first Sunday NFL season game on Sept. 7, > IBM will go primetime with a unique 90-second TV commercial > highlighting IBM's strategic choice of Linux as a pillar of its > open-standards strategy for e-business on demand. > > Besides Ali and Marshall, the celebrities in the ad are: > > Henry Lewis Gates, Harvard University professor, author and leader in > the African American community. > > John Wooden, former UCLA Bruins basketball coach who led his team to > ten NCAA championships. > > Sylvia Nasar, author of "A Beautiful Mind" and economist. > > They each in turn instruct a young boy, the ``Prodigy'', who acts as a > metaphor for Linux. It was shown at LinuxWorld, soliciting quite an > applause from the audience. At this point, IBM employees can see it > over the intranet, but I don't think we're allowed to redistribute it > :-(. In any case, here is the future location of the public site > (nothing of note is there yet): > > ibm.com/open > > There is mention of ``Quicktime for Linux'' at this site. Don't ask > me what that's all about. Just use MPlayer. :-) > > Mike > > -- > ------------------------------------------- | --------------------- > Michael Halcrow | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Developer, IBM Linux Technology Center | > | > What's another word for synonym? | > ------------------------------------------- | --------------------- > GnuPG Keyprint: 05B5 08A8 713A 64C1 D35D 2371 2D3C FDDA 3EB6 601D > ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
