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Mainframe Meets 'The Office'

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the who-knew-big-blue-was-funny dept.

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."

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  1. Lies! by ImTheDarkcyde · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  2. Listen to the bubbles pop by TopSpin · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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    Lurking at the bottom of the gravity well, getting old