Wednesday May 20, 2009
All
|
Books
|
Favourite TV programmes
|
Formula1
|
Gardening
|
General
|
Grumpy old man
|
Holidays
|
Just Images
|
Mentoring Ambassadors
|
Music
|
My Technical tips
|
News of the day
|
Person of the week
|
Recipes and Cooking
|
Walks or Hiking
|
Work topics
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]Post a Comment:
Comments are closed for this entry.
| Archives | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Referrers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Today's Page Hits: 480 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
"Buy our computers or these engineers get it" ?
No, that would be an SGI TShirt. =O(
Posted by Mark Bowyer on May 20, 2009 at 04:22 AM PDT #
Ha! That's a great shirt. You should get me one Paul! ;)
Posted by Julian Sequeira on May 20, 2009 at 04:21 PM PDT #
As I'm sure you know you have been theregistered!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/12/sun_network_gets_it/
Not quite as catchy as 'slashdotted' but pretty good nontheless :)
Hope everything is well for you and your team, both now and with the possible changes ahead.
Thanks again for the excellent placement experience,
Regards,
Matt
Posted by Matt Johnson on June 16, 2009 at 03:41 PM PDT #