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Wednesday May 20, 2009

Buy our computers or the Dog gets it....

During a chat with a collegue from Sun this T-Shirt entered the conversation which had caused a storm in the US many years ago. At that time Sun was using a dog called Network as part of a marketing campaign. The idea was if you wanted something you asked Network and he got it for you. There was even a kennel for him in the Menlo Park Campus and it was said he was Mcnealy's pet at home. So an enterprising person in Sun designed this alternative marketing T Shirt. Soon after the T shirts were distributed we all went to Sun's yearly technical convention held in two sessions a week apart. A lot of the Brit's turned up wearing these shirts we they registered for the event (which was held in the US) and the American registration people were agast at the T shirts content. I think we were told to change into something else asap. However the creator of the shirt managed to palm one off on Scott Mcnealy who thought it was great. I wonder if he still has it. The person who found this example in his house wants to remain anonymous. In light of the recent IBM/Oracle announcements maybe we should commission a new shirt with this design but with different words - modesty prohibits me on publishing any spinning around my head at the moment..

( May 20 2009, 12:00:01 AM PDT ) Permalink Comments [3]