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Sun's Bold New Ad Campaign

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the funny-advertising-at-its-best dept.

Celeritas writes "Sun is making some noise over their latest x64server entries by doing a fly by over Dell's HQ yesterday. A few pictures were snapped to capture the event. Sun has continued the offensive by running some interesting ads as well as designing some that were rejected due to the controversial content or as Sun calls them 'bold ad concepts'"

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  1. Rhymes with... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    "Rhymes with ass hot."

  2. Cute, but is it really necessary? by jmcmunn · · Score: -1, Troll


    I mean we're not marketing iPods to teenagers here. (nothing against iPods, just an example of cool and popular tech)

    But don't most server admins know the benefits, and won't they have already done the research on what they want to buy? This seems like a bit of a silly waste of money to me. I am guessing these Sum servers are going to sell pretty well, but then again I think most people who buy them would have bought them without the cute ads.

    On the other hand, I would have paid to get my own picture of the airplane buzzing Dell HQ. How funny. I am sure they will get a lot of attention, even if it doesn't sell machines.

    1. Re:Cute, but is it really necessary? by fimbulvetr · · Score: 1, Troll

      What are you talking about?

      The GGP implied that it's not really the sysadmins that can purchase the servers anyway, not the sysadmins. The GP replied "Hey, I'm a sysadmin, and I can!".

      So fucking what?

      So he, and I, can fucking purchase fucking sun fucking equipment is fucking what. What's _YOUR_ fucking point?

  3. or these by b17bmbr · · Score: 0, Troll

    We've got a bigger dick than Dell. or Buy a Sun, get a free blow job.

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    My problem? I was perfectly gruntled, until some numbnuts came by and dissed me.
  4. which is the cost by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    of this campaign?, they should be using their dollars fixing Java instead

  5. Unfortunately... by keesh · · Score: -1, Troll

    Unfortunately, Sun are far too expensive for the low end market and for high end kit they can't come close to competing with IBM. Their low end kit is twice the price and half the quality of any other big manufacturer, and their insistence that Linux sucks doesn't help either...

  6. Re:Wow. The clue meter is reading zero. by sn0wflake · · Score: 0, Troll

    Sun is a really cool brand to have on your computer and it's great to have a three year warranty. The problem though is that it's cheaper just buying a dual system per year for the price of a single Sun system.

  7. Re:Link to the Quark ads by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    interesting .. u have a past? what was it? a chainsaw murderer? child rapist? maybe even a lawyer? wait .. i got it.. u r george w. bush. what a past. horrible skeletons in your closet eh?
    thank god i dont have a past so i dont need jesus!
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