Mainframe Meets 'The Office'

BBCWatcher writes "Tom Foremski (a.k.a. Silicon Valley Watcher) claims that IBM is doing some guerilla marketing for the mainframe. The three videos, now on YouTube, show how IBM allegedly trains new mainframe salespeople, in the style of the BBC's "The Office." IBM's videos arrive in the midst of a Microsoft "Office" controversy. Microsoft was not amused when somebody leaked internal training videos from 2004 that feature Ricky Gervais, The Office man himself. Gervais wasn't happy either."

Comments

Re:Funny!

[Konster]

You are right, neither SNL nor these are funny.

Lies!

[ImTheDarkcyde]

This article has NOTHING to do with a comibinatin of Reboot and The Office

Listen to the bubbles pop

[TopSpin]

Remember the Enron "Why" campaign? When corporations have so much dead wood wandering the halls that this sort of stuff begins to emerge, you should expect mass layoffs. I don't like being the pessimist, but I'll need this on the record when I say I told you so.

Definitely IBM's doing

[Sean0michael]

No need for alleging here. When you go to IBM's Site for Mainframes, you see that the tag line under the photo is "Breakthrough Economics, Security, and Energy Efficiency." They are the three points from the three videos. It doesn't get any more plain than that.

...and the IBM website at the end of the clips.

Re:I like guerilla marketing

[gEvil (beta)]

There's another commercial for some hemorrhoid cream "from the makers of Head On." I'm scared that soon there'll be commercials saying "Apply directly to asshole. Apply directly to asshole. Apply directly to asshole."