IBM's New Linux Advertising

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday September 4, 2003 @08:44AM from the big-blue's-big-bucks dept.

Amit Shah writes "IBM is airing a commercial featuring Linux as reported on Economic Times. This could be the first major way to reach out to normal users and explain the benefits of open source and Linux. The ad says, "Collecting data is only the first step toward wisdom, but sharing data is the first step toward community""

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Mirror by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-04 08:44 · Score: 5, Informative

In case the site is slow, here is a mirror.

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1. Re:Mirror by Andrewkov · 2003-09-04 11:43 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  Check out IBM's new page, which is referenced by the TV ad: ibm.com/open. Here is a quote from the page, and this is good marketing:
  On demand business
  Linux is like nothing else in the history of computing--the most unique innovation operating systems have ever seen. It's unprecedented integration. It's an open source operating system. Owned by no single company or private enterprise. Constantly improved by thousands of programmers. And it's getting bigger. Last year, according to the IDC, shipments of servers running Linux increased by 22.8%.
  If Linux were a person, he would be growing, fast. Taught by the best. Gaining wisdom beyond his years. And sharing. He would be in business, education, government and homes. He would be a nine-year-old boy changing the world.
  It's stuff like this that will grab the masses attention and let people know that Linux is ready for prime time. I'm really happy to see IBM doing this!
First Campaign? by CGP314 · 2003-09-04 08:46 · Score: 5, Informative

What about their 'Peace, love, Linux' hippy campaign they ran a while back.
Want to see the AD ? by ramzak2k · 2003-09-04 09:00 · Score: 5, Informative

Check this out

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1. Re:Want to see the AD ? by bigjocker · 2003-09-04 09:17 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  With wget you will keep getting a refference to the same file.
  
  mplayer is your friend:
  
  mplayer http://66.246.105.13:80/adcritic/ibm-linux-prodigy .asf -dumpstream
  
  check for the file stream.dump
  
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2. Re:Want to see the AD ? by protohiro1 · 2003-09-04 09:20 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  See it in what ever format you prefer...the future is open people.
  
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3. Re:Want to see the AD ? by broeman · 2003-09-04 10:51 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  a better solution is to use this link instead, it comes from IBM's homepage and is in a slightly better quality (mpeg): click to download (cannot use Save Link As...)
  
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Re:Quite so! by tomhudson · 2003-09-04 09:09 · Score: 5, Informative
Siplifications in favour of linux (some just in the last week or so):
1. no linux msblaster worms
2. no linux visual basic for applications cracks
3. no trains, planes or automobiles stopped by linux viruses, worms or trojans
4. no linux DRM media players
5. no linux license fees
6. no linux authorization codes when you change hardware
7. no forced upgrade cycle
8. no having to hunt down 50 cds when trying to rebuild a machine
If it sounds simpler, it's because it is.
Direct links. by sam_doshi · 2003-09-04 09:54 · Score: 5, Informative

Quicktime Version 1.6 mb
MPEG version 8.7 mb
Re:Just to address a few by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-04 10:08 · Score: 3, Informative

When was the last new threat that was directly a result of Visual Basic scripting? By "new" I mean within the last three months or so.

Well, is yesterday new enough?

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default. asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-037.asp
Re:Quite so! by arkane1234 · 2003-09-04 12:55 · Score: 4, Informative

If you were to go take a vanilla fresh installed Red Hat 7.3 machine and stick it on the Internet it'd be hacked in under an hour.

If you were to go take a vanilla fresh installed Windows 95 machine and stick it on the Internet it'd be hacked in under an hour.

If you were to go take a vanilla fresh installed Solaris 6 machine and stick it on the Internet it'd be hacked in under an hour.

If you were to go take a vanilla fresh installed FreeBSD 2.0 machine and stick it on the Internet it'd be hacked in under an hour.

You can say that about ANY software that has significantly aged and is left unpatched.
Of course:
The only thing all this proves is that operating systems have bugs... ALL of them do, including OpenBSD and a major OpenSSH root exploit in the default install last year.

In most cases it's not the operating system, but the stuff running on top of it. You can't exactly say the same about Blaster, now can ya? This one has been a long time coming. Someone just finally did it.

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No glass house here, more like reinforced steel. Your average joe schmoe has the ability to get a hardware firewall from your local best buy or fry's electronics. They just don't do it.

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