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IBM Challenges Microsoft With an Ad Campaign

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the draw-sabers-and-duel dept.

Rytis writes "IBM is about to spend $300 Million dollars on a campaign to win customers and to convert them from Microsoft Exchange to Lotus Notes and Domino under Linux. IBM is also said to offer resellers a bounty of $20,000 for switching customers to its Linux-based e-mail programs from Microsoft server software. It seems that the concurrence Microsoft Corp. is facing is getting tighter and tighter. The Penguin gets more and more support from the two biggest rivals that Microsoft have ever had."

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  1. Have the april fools started yet? by Tony+Hoyle · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's 12:05AM. Last year *every single story* for about 24 hours was a lame joke.. how am I to believe this one?

    Probably will avoid slashdot for about 36 hours just in case.

  2. Lotus Notes? by masklinn · · Score: 4, Funny

    Whoa, IBM wants people to switch from the at-least-ok proprietary MS solution to their own we-have-the-worst-software-in-the-world, a-thousand-interface-designers-sacrified-every-day , lotus-notes-making-your-brain-melt-since-1996, interface-standards-are-not-for-us-goddamit Lotus Fucking Notes?

    Woohoo, fucking win, that's not even being between a rock and a hard place, that's being in an erupting volcano and seeing a frigging Chicxulub-class asteroid falling on you (that'd be a 10km diameter asteroid, 6mi for our metrically challenged american friends).

    And don't listen to anyone telling you that Notes is great and that it rocks your socks, it's been proven that only Notes developers can utter praises for that piece of donkey poo, they're merely trying to keep their jobs.

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  3. For a better world, we should all do it! by LibertineR · · Score: 4, Funny
    Give up Exchange Server for Notes!

    Give up Sex for Video Games

    Give up Kobe Beef for Bean Sprouts

    Give up SUVs for Hybrids

    Give up TV for a walk in the park.

    Give up music for the sound of waves on the beach

    Give up Logic for Scientology

    You too can have an episode of South Park devoted to your madness!

  4. Understand the Penguin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    > The Penguin gets more and more support from the two biggest rivals that Microsoft have ever had.

    It isn't so much that the Penguin has powerful friends, but that Microsoft has powerful enemies. How about a Warcraft scenario: Bill in Borg weeping as he runs through the swamp, pursued by big war trolls and a very angry penguin!

  5. Dupe? by NoSuchGuy · · Score: 2, Funny
    It's 12:05AM. Last year *every single story* for about 24 hours was a lame joke.. how am I to believe this one?

    Probably will avoid slashdot for about 36 hours just in case.
    Don't forget the dupes two days later!
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