Advertising - was Re: [OT/FUN] HP live chat popped up when browsing www.hp.com

From: John Smith (a_at_nonymous.com)
Date: 10/31/03 

Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 13:59:44 GMT

Didier Morandi wrote:
> Looking for info, I just went to my favourite OpenVMS pages on
> http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms when a window suddenly popped up on
> my M$ screen and a chat session started, powered by LivePerson. Here
> is the log:
>
> ---
> Please wait for an HP Sales Expert to respond.
> Welcome to HP! My name is Gene. How can I help you today.
> you: Hello Gene. Are you an OPS5 program or a real person? :-)
> Gene: I'm real, although I've been called. . . lol
> Gene: yes, I'm real
> Gene: just making a little funny
> Gene: how can I help you
> you: Good. So I leave you. I'm busy and you will be too. This game is
> nice. Have a good day. Cheers from Toulouse.
> you: Didier
> Gene: Thank you for visiting hp.com. Have a Great Day!
> Chat session has been terminated by the Sales Expert.
> ---
>
> Experimented that before?

I didn't see it but I also have lots of 'features' disabled in my browser.

On another note, what struck me as I read the VMS home page were the
following words under a couple of the section headers:

"OpenVMS offers immunity to both planned and unplanned downtime with proven,
unmatched, continuous computing, including disaster-tolerant, multisite
clusters spanning 500 miles - at an "open system" price."

and

"OpenVMS is the acknowledged leader for enterprise-scale, bulletproof
computing and continues to serve the 10 million users who rely on it. Simply
put, nothing stops it! OpenVMS couples unparalleled functionality with
enhanced performance, providing the high availability and reliability that
your applications demand."

These two paragraphs alone could be a pretty good beginning of full-page
newspaper ad in the Wall Street Journal. A few minor edits (get rid of the
10 million users b.s.) and the addition of another couple of paragraphs
('that's why XYZ and ABC Corp. rely on OpenVMS to serve millions of
customers hourly without costly downtime'), et voila, an ad that conveys a
powerful message to a powerful group of readers, ones who sign cheques for
large computer systems and for large projects.

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